The Camelot Betrayal

Camelot is thriving. King Arthur is extending his kingdom's reach, and Queen Guinevere stands beside him. Yet every night she is troubled by dreams of darkness and a power she cannot name, and she still has no place of her own in the court.

Three people sit closest to her. Brangien pines for her lost love Isolde. Lancelot is fighting to prove herself as the Queen's knight. Arthur gives himself to everyone, which leaves Guinevere never quite enough of him.

The nearer she gets to them, the emptier she feels. She has no sense of who she was before she became Guinevere, and the harder she tries to claim the role of queen, the more she suspects Mordred was right that she does not belong.

A rescue goes wrong and something precious is lost. Guinevere returns to Camelot devastated and finds the greatest threat yet waiting there. It is neither the Dark Queen nor an invading army. It is the real Guinevere's younger sister.

This is Arthurian fantasy told through a queen who is living under a false name, and the book is about identity and deception as much as court intrigue. The mood is brooding and uneasy, driven by dread and by Guinevere's own doubts. The sister's arrival raises the question of whom Guinevere has been deceiving all along: Camelot, or herself.