Leopard's Lady

this is the story of astra & richard the book starts with richard looking in on two girls bathing in a water hole,he stays and looks at them get out of the water one is dark haired & the other blonde, astra sences someone and goes to see what it is, at this point she has not put any clothes, she goes over to the bushes, he stepps aside so she could see him she wasps, he smiles and she runs away.they meet again some months later at a fair and then in Henry III's courthe is gready and power hungryshe is kind and loyalhe wants to marry for moneyshe has none