The Woman Who Could Not Be Loved

2019: Sandie is brilliant, ambitious, and dangerously obsessed. As a Cambridge undergraduate, she makes a calculated decision - to bear the child of Peter, a renowned professor who must never know he is the father. The Rivens Trust offers her a way to profit from her intelligence, providing high-IQ surrogate mothers to the elite. But Sandie breaks the rules. She trades sex for money, and worse - she falls in love. 1270-1324: The last of the Cathars are being hunted, their faith driven to extinction. Brunissende de Foix, daughter of a powerful noble house, refuses to let Rome decide her people's fate. Seduction is her weapon, ambition her creed. Defiled by an archbishop and married to a ruthless lord, she sets her sights on the highest prize of all - the Papacy. If she can place her chosen bishop on Saint Peter's throne, she can bring the Church to its knees. She will succeed in everything but the one thing that matters most. Spanning centuries, The Woman Who Could Not Be Loved is a story of desire, power, and the ruthless pursuit of the unattainable.