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Book Description for The Gambit Queen, the forthcoming sequel to The Leper King:
The Leper King is dead. In the wake of such personal tragedy, his sister, Countess Sibylla of Japhe and Ascalone, longs to return to the convent and leave the crown in the hands of her young son and his Regent, Raymond of Tripoli. But when Baudinouet suddenly dies of illness, Sibylla is secretly forced by the Order of Sion to sacrifice her desires to become queen and crown her estranged husband, Guion de Lusignan as king, even at the risk of civil war.
The Leper King is dead. In the wake of such personal tragedy, his sister, Countess Sibylla of Japhe and Ascalone, longs to return to the convent and leave the crown in the hands of her young son and his Regent, Raymond of Tripoli. But when Baudinouet suddenly dies of illness, Sibylla is secretly forced by the Order of Sion to sacrifice her desires to become queen and crown her estranged husband, Guion de Lusignan as king, even at the risk of civil war.
Meanwhile, the squire of the lord of Ibelin, a young man of mixed Christian and Arab blood named Ernoul, discovers that the nun attending his sick mother in the Hospital of Saint-John is a woman who claims she is the beloved saint, Mary Magdalen, and that he is an heir to an ancient bloodline. As the heretical Order of Sion seeks to regain strength and the kingdom moves ever closer to war with Salehdin, Mary is lured by a puzzling clue to the hiding place of the lost Holy Grail. But is it a trap set by her enemies to destroy her…
or the end of a long quest to reclaim Christianity’s most sacred treasure?
