![]() ![]() Thomas Becket was Henry’s chancellor and best friend-until he was not. In the next book, Time and Chance, we learn that there was a snake in their Angevin Eden, two of them, in fact. I launched the “trilogy” with When Christ and his Saints Slept, which began with the sinking of the White Ship, the twelfth century’s version of the Titanic tragedy, and ended with Henry and Eleanor in triumph, “sure that the world, like the English crown, was theirs for the taking.” It is true I’d initially planned to do three books about the first Plantagenet king, Henry II, his equally famous queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine, and their notorious offspring, often called the Devil’s Brood. ![]() “Sharon is here to talk about her latest entry in her five-book trilogy about the Angevin dynasty.” That amused the audience and me, too. When I did a reading for A King’s Ransom at my favorite book store, the Poisoned Pen in Scottsdale, AZ, this is how I was introduced by the owner, Barbara Peters, who is a good friend and has a keen sense of humor. ![]()
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