Eleanor's Brooch

By Michael D Ayres

In the winter of 1193, King Richard the Lionheart lies captive in a foreign land, and England holds its breath. At Fontevraud Abbey, a convent servant named Aveline sweeps frost from the gatehouse steps when a single rider changes everything: Eleanor of Aquitaine, dowager queen and duchess of Aquitaine, has come to rally a fractured realm.

What follows is a court drama of ransom, betrayal, and quiet defiance, as Eleanor gathers her lords, outmaneuvers a hostile emperor, and moves coded messages across a kingdom that no longer knows whom to trust. Pulled into the queen's service, Aveline finds herself carrying secrets far beyond the abbey walls, and growing close to Gervais, a squire whose loyalty will be tested on the long road east.

Grounded in the real crisis of Richard's imprisonment and Eleanor's fight to bring him home, Eleanor's Brooch is a story of power worn openly and grief carried privately, where a single heirloom becomes the emblem of everything a mother risks for her son, and everything a kingdom asks of the women who hold it together.

Eleanor's Brooch is Book One of the Aquitaine saga, continuing in The Banner and the Crown.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HJSYZMDR
• ISBN13: 9798182768689
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Pulp House Publishing
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"