There's quite a big surprise at the ending, a surprise that turns Angélique's life upside down and on to new adventures, so I'd advise you have book three, Angélique in Barbary on hand and ready to start. I suspect some of the more PC minded readers will send the book flying so don't say I didn't warn you. I did like this, but the storyline went in directions I was not excepting, particularly that of husband #2. Plus there's that hated husband still to be dealt with… And once she gets there, her beauteous charm and intelligence catches the King's eye, but there's this little problem of his other mistresses, one in particular who isn't about to give up without a fight - and a very nasty fight that turns out to be. Don't you worry, our intrepid heroine won't let a little thing like a mean-ass husband keep her away from Court and Louis XIV. there's a wee bit of a problem since husband #2 (who shall rename nameless so as not to spoil) wants nothing to do with his wife and he goes to great efforts to keep her shut up in Paris. Through a series of adventures, the King becomes increasingly enamored of her, but the book is also heavily concerned with the ambivalent relationship between Angélique and Marquis Philippe du Plessis Bellerie.Īt the end of book one, Angélique used a little blackmail to improve her lot in life and get herself a husband who can get her in the front door at Versailles. As the story opens, Angélique has already known great love, great loss, trauma, poverty and violence, but her heart is still empty.

Once you've met Angelique, you won't want to miss any of the sensational Angelique novels. Angelique has loved, intrigued, hated and fought her way into the hearts of million of readers all over the world. Her stormy adventures have taken her from the gutters of Paris to the harems of Africa to the silken prison of a King. HAVE YOU MET ANGELIQUE? She's one of the most irresistible heroines in the history of fiction. Angelique was determined to find new ways to keep the King's passion a flame. But the emerald-eyed enchantress knew Louis discarded beautiful mistresses like toys.

Fought over by every exquisite woman in France, there was only one luscious jewel Louis really wanted to possess the irresistible Angelique.

Louis XIV was one of history's great lovers.

Angelique and the King by Anne Golon