Sandra Gulland was born in Miami, Florida, in 1944. Her interest in Josephine Bonaparte and the Napoleonic era was sparked in 1972 when she read a biography of Josephine. Decades of research followed, and she  began a fictional biography of Josephine in January, 1990. THE MANY LIVES & SECRET SORROWS OF JOSEPHINE B., the first novel in what evolved to be the Josephine B. Trilogy, was published by HarperCollins Canada in May, 1995, followed in 1998 by TALES OF PASSION, TALES OF WOE and THE LAST GREAT DANCE ON EARTH in 2000. That same year, she began researching and writing a novel set in 17th century France, at the court of Louis XIV, the Sun King. MISTRESS OF THE SUN was published in 2008. Her fifth novel, THE SHADOW QUEEN, will be published April 8, 2014, and is also set in the court of the Sun King.

Books by Sandra Gulland

The Shadow Queen

by Sandra Gulland - Fiction, Historical Fiction

From the author of the beloved Josephine B. Trilogy comes a spellbinding novel inspired by the true story of a young woman who rises from poverty to become confidante to the most powerful, provocative and dangerous woman in the 17th century French court: the mistress of the charismatic Sun King.