Willful and outspoken, sixteen-year-old Isabelle yearns to escape her stifling life in provincial twelfth century France. Isabelle's arranged marriage to Gerard, a rich, charismatic lord obsessed with falcons, seems, at first, to fulfill her longing for adventure. But as Gerard's controlling nature, and his consuming desire for a male heir, become more apparent, Isabelle, in the spirit of her royal heroine Eleanor of Aquitaine, makes bold, often perilous, decisions which will forever affect her fate.
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