Scandalous Historical Families

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Scandalous Historical Families

By Jen Webster

Genres: General Fiction

Murder, affairs, illegitimate children, executions, incest, child marriages...these families have many skeletons in the closet.
If you need a little scandal in your life, pick up one of these titles.

1 Lucrezia Borgia

John Faunce

2 The Other Boleyn Girl

Philippa Gregory

3 His Last Letter

Jeane Westin

4 The Determined Heart: The Tale of Mary Shelley and Her Frankenstein

Antoinette May

5 The Queen's Lover

Francine Du Plessix Gray

6 Freud's Mistress

Karen Mack

7 The Memoirs of Helen of Troy

Amanda Elyot

8 The Shadow Queen

Rebecca Dean

9 Empress of the Night

Eva Stachniak

10 The Borgias

Jean Plaidy

11 Poison

Sara Poole

12 Madonna of the Seven Hills

Jean Plaidy

13 The Serpent and the Pearl

Kate Quinn

14 A Tip for the Hangman

Allison Epstein

15 The Secret Bride

Diane Haeger

16 An Assassin's Guide to Love and Treason

Virginia Boecker

17 Days of Splendor, Days of Sorrow

Juliet Grey

18 Farewell, My Queen

Chantal Thomas

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