Maid Of Middleham: A Ricardian Romance

England 1468, in the grip of the Wars of the Roses. Eleanor, a young girl enters the service of the Earl and Countess of Warwick at the Neville Stronghold of Middleham Castle in Yorkshire. There she meets the young Richard Duke of Gloucester and falls in love. A story of love, devotion, passion & tragedy, as Eleanor follows the events of Richard's life, until he becomes King and finally falls at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485. The story imagines a liaison between its heroine Eleanor, a country girl, and Richard, Duke of Gloucester, destined to become Richard III, the last Plantagenet King of England. It blends elements of fact and fiction in a way guaranteed to intrigue and entertain any reader interested in this dramatic period of English history.