Tanzanite's Castle Full of Books

For anyone who has been paying attention, 2010 is clearly the year of Eleanor of Aquitaine!  With at least three books scheduled for release this year about this very formidable woman, she may just be the thing to push the Tudors out of their favored status.  I posted about this book several months ago and happened upon this cover today - I love it!   Holland has written a number of books but I have never read any of them - this will definately be the first!



1151: As Duchess of Aquitaine, Eleanor grew up knowing what it was to be regarded for herself and not for her husband's title. Now, as wife to Louis VII and Queen of France, she has found herself unsatisfied with reflected glory-and feeling constantly under threat, even though she outranks every woman in Paris.
Then, standing beside her much older husband in the course of a court ceremony, Eleanor locks eyes with a man-hardly more than a boy, really- across the throne room, and knows that her world has changed irrevocably...
He is Henry D'Anjou, eldest son of the Duke of Anjou, and he is in line, somewhat tenuously, for the British throne. She meets him in secret. She has a gift for secrecy, for she is watched like a prisoner by spies even among her own women. She is determined that Louis must set her free. Employing deception and disguise, seduction and manipulation, Eleanor is determined to find her way to power-and make her mark on history.