Eleanor of Aquitaine has disappeared. After launching a great rebellion
to destroy her husband Henry II's reign, it seems she has abandoned her
sons in the struggle against their formidable father. As treachery
radiates from Scotland to the Pyrenees, tension between the kings of
France and England erupts into war.
Richard, the mightiest of the English princes, is determined to find his
mother and avenge her. But Henry is more cunning than Richard or any of
the other rebels anticipated, and the fates of Eleanor, her sons, and
France itself, are in jeopardy.
The final book in the sumptuous Birth of the Plantagenets series, The
Cubs Roar, illuminates the tumultuous end of Henry II. A tragic history
of love, power and betrayal, The Cubs Roar reveals the destruction of
an empire at the hands of a broken family.