Guinevere evermore

Guinevere Evermore closes out Sharan Newman's Guinevere trilogy, following Guinevere, the queen who was raised by the Ladies of the Lake, through the final years of Camelot. She has settled into her marriage to Arthur and taken on a maternal role toward Galahad, Lancelot's son, even as the quest for the Holy Grail draws Percival and other knights away from court on visions of the Fisher King.

With Arthur occupied by war, the affair between Guinevere and Lancelot that has shadowed the trilogy is finally exposed, and Guinevere is accused of adultery and treason. Mordred, now positioned close to the throne, uses the crisis to move against Arthur's rule, setting up the kingdom's collapse.

Newman grounds the Arthurian legend in a more historically plausible early medieval Britain than the usual chivalric romance version, and this closing volume follows that reading through to Camelot's end.