Though the story of the Wars of the Roses usually focuses on the Plantagenet men who fought, died on the battlefield, or survived to take the crown, some of its main personalities were queens, princesses, and duchesses. These remarkable women publicly and privately exerted the influence and wielded the power that shaped the conflict. Tudor and Renaissance scholar Carol Ann Lloyd-Stanger introduces seven wives, mothers, and sisters who helped spin and shred the web of conspiracies that blanketed the English throne.