The Heretic Queen is historical fiction at its best. Michelle Moran seamlessly incorporates accurate details into a story full of suspense, intrigue, and tenderness that's impossible to put down until you've reached the last page. An absolute triumph!

Beastly of him to die before you realized he might be fascinating.

At least as a single woman, I had time to pursue my own interests, read voraciously, and travel when opportunity presented.

You do know, I hope, that no man under the age of forty can even approach fascinating.

It's delicious to have people adore you, but it's exhausting, too. Particularly when your own feelings don't match theirs.

You've faced horrors in these past weeks... I don't know which is worse. The terror you feel the first time you witness such things, or the numbness that comes after it starts to become ordinary.

The Heretic Queen is historical fiction at its best. Michelle Moran seamlessly incorporates accurate details into a story full of suspense, intrigue, and tenderness that's impossible to put down until you've reached the last page. An absolute triumph!