Anne Neville & her sister Isabel are daughters of the most powerful magnate in 15th century England Ever ruthless always plotting in the absence of a son & heir Warwick sets about using his daughters as pawns in his political games Anne grows from a delightful child brought up at the court of Edward IV & his queen Elizabeth Woodville intimacy & friendship with the family of Richard Duke of Gloucester Her life is overturned when her father turns on his former allies escapes England & invades with an enemy army Widowed at 14 fatherless with her mother locked in sanctuary & her sister a vengeful enemy Anne faces the world alone But fortune's wheel turns once again Anne plots her escape from her sister's house finds herself a husband in the handsome young Duke of Gloucester & marries without permission in secret But danger still follows her She finds that she has a mortal enemy in the most beautiful queen in England Anne has to protect herself & her precious only son from the treacherous royal court the deadly royal rival & even from the driving ambition of her husband
- Richard III