As their love unfolds, Louise bears Louis four children, is made a duchess, and reigns unrivaled as his official mistress until dangerous intrigue threatens her position at court and in Louis's heart.Ī riveting love story with a captivating mystery at its heart, Mistress of the Sun illuminates both the power of true and perfect love and the rash actions we take to capture and tame it. Unmarriageable, and too poor to join a convent, Louise enters the court of the Sun King, where the king is captivated by her. The novel was eight years in the making, but my passion for Louise’s story began well over fifteen years ago. I love her, and think my readers will as well. Cover of Mistress Of The Sun WJD: Firstly, thank you for agreeing to this interview to discuss Mistress Of The Sun a beautifully wrought novel. Trilogy, which has sold more than a million copies in seventeen languages worldwide. THE SHADOW QUEEN, a sister novel to MISTRESS OF THE SUN, was published in the spring of 2013 and is also published internationally. Set in 17th century France, Mistress of the Sun is a novel about Louise de la Vallire (pronounced valley-air), a name that will likely be unfamiliar to people outside of France. This one desperate action of her youth shadows her throughout her life, changing it in ways she could never imagine. Sandra Gulland is the author of the Canadian bestseller Mistress of the Sun as well as the Josephine B. Set against the magnificent decadence of the seventeenth-century French court, Mistress of the Sun begins when an eccentric young Louise falls in love with a wild white stallion and uses ancient magic to tame him. The author of the internationally acclaimed Josephine Bonaparte trilogy returns with another irresistible historical novel, this one based on the life of Louise de la Vallière, who, against all odds, became one of the most mysterious consorts of France's Louis XIV, the charismatic Sun King.

Mistress of the sun by sandra gulland