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Name: Castile for Isabella

Author: Jean Plaidy
Year: 1960
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Genres/categories:
Historical fiction, Romance
Culture: Spain

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ISBNs:
9780330238304
9780099510321
0330238302
0099510324

The first part of Plaidy's captivating Spanish Trilogy on Isabella and Ferdinand. With fifteen-century Spain rent with intrigue and threatened by civil war, Isabella became the pawn of her ambitious, half-crazed mother and a virtual prisoner at the licentious court of her half-brother, Henry IV. Was she, at sixteen, fated to be the victim of the Queen's revenge, the Archbishop's ambition and the lust of Don Pedro Giron, one of the most notorious lechers in Castile? Numbed with grief and fear, Isabella yet remained steadfast in her determination to marry Ferdinand, the handsome young Prince of Aragon, her only true betrothed ...

This book is part of the "Isabella and Ferdinand" series. Here are some other books from this series:

"Daughters of Spain"
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"Spain for the Sovereigns"
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