To dance with kings - Rosalind Laker

An epic generational tale of loves lost, promises kept, dreams broken, and monarchies
shattered, To Dance with Kings is a story of passion and privilege, humble beginnings
and limitless ambition.

On a May morning in 1664, in the small village of Versailles, as hundreds of young
aristocrats are coming to pay court to King Louis XIV, a peasant fan-maker gives
birth to her first and only child, Marguerite. Determined to give her daughter a
better life than the one she herself has lived, the young mother vows to break the
newborn's bonds of poverty and ensure that she fulfills her destiny-to dance with
kings. Purely by chance, a drunken nobleman witnesses the birth and makes a reckless
promise to return for Marguerite in seventeen years. With those fateful words, events
are set into motion that will span three monarchies, affecting the lives of four
generations of women.

Marguerite becomes part of the royal court of the Sun King,
but her fairy-tale existence is torn out from under her by a change of political
winds. Jasmin, Marguerite's daughter, is born to the life of privilege her grandmother
dreamed of, but tempts fate by daring to catch the eye of the king. Violette, Marguerite's
granddaughter, is drawn to the nefarious side of life among the nobles at Versailles.
And Rose, Violette's daughter, becomes a lady-in-waiting and confidante to Marie
Antoinette. Through Rose, a love lost generations before will come full circle, even
as the ground beneath Versailles begins to rumble with the chaos of the coming revolution.