Every Chapter, In Order

Paris, 1572 — a royal wedding, a massacre, and a queen caught between two worlds, in sixty-six chapters.

These sixty-six chapters open on the real St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre and close two years later with Charles IX's actual death, tracking Marguerite de Valois through the aftermath of one of French history's bloodiest single events. See the full overview page, or this site's piece on the real massacre the novel opens with.