Anya Seton

A biographical novel concerning the love affair between Katherine Swynford and John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster, in fourteenth-century England.

Young standard bearer Quintus Tullius, in Britain with the Ninth Roman Legion as part of the empire's efforts to calm mutinous tribes, and on a personal mission to find the bones of his grandfather who died at Stonehenge, falls in love with beautiful Regan, only to learn she is the foster daughter of Boadicea, instigator of the rebellion against Rome.