Mailbox Monday

Another Monday, Another Mailbox!! This is a feature where we all share with each other the yummy books that showed up at our doors! WARNING: Mailbox Mondays can lead to extreme envy and GINORMOUS wishlists!!

Mailbox Monday was originally hosted by Marcia at The Printed Page, but is now a traveling meme and for the month of April Mailbox Monday will be hosted by yours truly!!!  For the month of May your new host for MM will be Mari @ Mari Reads!

This is my last time hosting Mailbox Monday and I'd like to thank Marcia for this opportunity.  It has been so much fun meeting new bloggers and I thank all of you for dropping by and hope you will continue to do so!

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This past week was another slow one for me, but quality trumped quantity as I received a book I have been lusting after for a long time now!  I am a huge fan of author Karleen Koen and was so excited to snag a copy of her latest release, Before Versailles.  I also was able to secure an interview with Ms. Koen and am beyond stoked for that!  Thank you Rachel from Crown Publishing!

Before Versailles: A Novel of Louis XIV
by Karleen Koen

Release Date:  June 28, 2011

SYNOPSIS

Louis XIV is one of the best-known monarchs ever to grace the French throne. But what was he like as a young man—the man before Versailles?

After the death of his prime minister, Cardinal Mazarin, twenty-two-year-old Louis steps into governing France. He’s still a young man, but one who, as king, willfully takes everything he can get—including his brother’s wife. As the love affair between Louis and Princess Henriette burns, it sets the kingdom on the road toward unmistakable scandal and conflict with the Vatican. Every woman wants him. He must face what he is willing to sacrifice for love.

But there are other problems lurking outside the chateau of Fontainebleau: a boy in an iron mask has been seen in the woods, and the king’s finance minister, Nicolas Fouquet, has proven to be more powerful than Louis ever thought—a man who could make a great ally or become a dangerous foe . . .

Meticulously researched and vividly brought to life by the gorgeous prose of Karleen Koen, Before Versailles dares to explore the forces that shaped an iconic king and determined the fate of an empire.

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