What the Duchess Wants. Terri Brisbin

With a nod to Louis, Eleanor found her maidservant and ladies waiting for her in the corridor and sought out her chambers.

      Later that night, after sending the women away and discussing the day with her trusted advisor, Eleanor decided to enter into private communications with the Angevins. She believed she could aid them in moving across this quagmire safely and they could, in return, be the very thing she sought—someone, a nobleman, strong enough to offer a soon-to-be divorced queen sanctuary.…

      Or something more than sanctuary…

      A future that would see Aquitaine and Poitou joined to Normandy and Anjou in an alliance stronger than either thought possible.

      More than that, the possibility that teased her far into the night and into the next days, weeks and months was one of finding a husband worthy of her and all she had to offer.

      Could Henry Fitz-Empress be that man?