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“A wonderful exemplory instance of relationship in its most traditional fictional feeling: exciting, modern, and wealthy with the jeweled hues of England within the 1300s.” —Austin Share Katherine is definitely an epic story of the love-affair that improved history—that of Katherine Swynford and John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, the ancestors of most of the British royal household. Occur the lively fourteenth-century of Chaucer and the Black Death, the story features knights fighting in battle, serfs struggling in poverty, and the wonderful Plantagenets—Edward III, the Black Prince, and Rich II—who rule despotically over a courtroom rotten with interest. In this period of danger and romance, John of Gaunt, the son, falls passionately in deep love with the currently-committed Katherine. Their event continues through years of conflict, infidelity, murder, loneliness, and redemption.