1319. Isabel, the Holy Queen, is the wife of Dinis, the king, and mother of Afonso, the heir, both involved in a civil war. In such disorder and violence Maria Afonso, the king’s youngest bastard daughter, is raped and killed. The king asks Count Lopo to find Maria Afonso’s murderer. The knight’s path will lead him to Vataça, the queen’s maid, and to Isabel herself, the Holy Queen, who holds secrets that may change the course of Portugal’s history.
A Rainha e a Bastarda
Fiction