title: Unruly Princess: A Novel
author: Marcelle Thibaux
description: Marcelle Thiebaux is the author of The Writings of Medieval Women; Dhuoda: Handbook for her Warrior Son; and The Stag of Love: the Chase in Medieval Literature. She began research on Princess Margit's court circle when she gave a seminar on medieval women at the Central European University in Budapest. She has published articles and short stories, and has reviewed fiction for Publishers Weekly and The New York Times Book Review. She lives with her photographer husband in Sag Harbor and New York.
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  _**A princess captive in the tower...**_
  
   _A Spanish knight who can set her free!_
  
  In this _Princesses of the Alhambra_ story, meet Princess Leonor, who can’t
  escape her tyrannical sultan father. For Spanish knight Count Rodrigo, her
  innocence—and beauty—tug at his sense of honor. He will lay down his life to
  protect her...but the risks are great: she is the daughter of his sworn enemy!
  
   **Princesses of the Alhambra miniseries**
  
  Book 1—The Knight’s Forbidden Princess
  
  Look out for the next book, coming soon!
  
  “A well built story with believable characters and an evocative sense of time
  and place.”  
   _—Goodreads Review_ on _Lady Isobel’s Champion_
  
   _ **Princesses of the Alhambra**_
  
   _Captive in the castle; rescued by love!_
  
  Three sisters, Princesses Leonor, Alba and Constanza, fiercely loyal to each
  other, lead gilded but captive lives in a tower in the beautiful Alhambra
  Palace. Their father, the sultan, watches over them closely.
  
  When they catch s