Can a free-spirited country girl navigate the world of intrigue, illicit affairs, and power-mongering that is the court of Louis XIV—the Sun King–and still keep her head?

Courting the Sun: A Novel of Versailles answers that question. It is France, 1670. Sixteen-year-old Sylvienne d’Aubert receives an invitation to attend the court of King Louis XIV. She eagerly accepts, unaware of her mother’s secret past with the monarch. Assigned to serve King Louis’s favorite mistress, she is absorbed into the King’s most intimate circle—a heady adventure. But life among the royals causes dreams to collide with reality, immersing Sylvienne in machinations that test her resilience and threaten her very existence.