1547: Pedro Gonzales, a young boy living on the island of Tenerife, is mercilessly ridiculed for the hair covering his body from head to toe. He is kidnapped by Queen Catherine as considers herself a collector of unusual people. Fascinated by Pedro, she is determined to find him a bride. Catherine Raffelin is a beautiful seventeen-year-old girl whose merchant father has fallen on hard times and offers up his daughter to Queen Catherine. Catherine must learn to navigate this strange new world, and the unusual man who is now her husband.
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