The Broken Heart of Queen Margot

The love between Margaret of Valois, Queen of Navarre, and Boniface de la Môle was doomed. She was the wife of a king and the king’s daughter; he was a traitor, a conspirator—sent to the scaffold. Queen Margot fulfilled her duty to her family. And in the memory of that forbidden love, she was left only with a golden heart—her parting gift from the man she betrayed… The locket of Margaret of Valois, the last of a once mighty royal house, made Barbara incredibly alluring in men’s eyes. But it brought her no happiness—just as it brought none to her mistress. All three husbands of Barbara, who loved her to madness, died. And even if Barbara has an alibi for the time of their deaths, and the causes of death are obvious, the researcher of anomalies, Ilya Dalmato v, is convinced that this is not a coincidence. And Barbara isn’t the unfortunate girl her cousin Salomee thinks she is. Ilya is determined to uncover the truth, despite the fact that he himself begins to feel for Barbara an inexplicable sympathy…