A Queen Besieged

About the Book

Queen Luisa faced trouble within her family as the young king Afonso, for whom she ruled, was both mentally and physically weak and the subject of unscrupulous politicians determined to turn him against his mother. Of immediate concern was evidence that one or more members of the queen’s government that sat as a council of war was a traitor. Anxious to assist the Portuguese queen against her many enemies, England and France combined to send Luke Tremayne to assess the situation.

About the Author

Geoff Quaife has been a University teacher, historian, and administrator and has written several works of non fiction, including an overview of the withcraft craze of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and the sexual mores and practices of the English peasantry. He is the author of the previous nine novels in the Luke Tremayne adventure series. Born and educated in Melbourne, Australia he has spent most of his working life in Armidale in regional New South Wales.