Simon & Schuster
August 2013
On Sale: August 6, 2013
Featuring: Katherine Parr; King Henry VIII
432 pages ISBN: 147670306X EAN: 9781476703060 Kindle: B00AB193B0 Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
Widowed for the second time at age thirty-one Katherine Parr
falls deeply for the dashing courtier Thomas Seymour and
hopes at last to marry for love. However, obliged to return
to court, she attracts the attentions of the ailing,
egotistical, and dangerously powerful Henry VIII, who
dispatches his love rival, Seymour, to the Continent. No one
is in a position to refuse a royal proposal so, haunted by
the fates of his previous wives' two executions, two
annulments, one death in childbirth, Katherine must wed
Henry and become his sixth queen.
Katherine has to employ all her instincts to navigate the
treachery of the court, drawing a tight circle of women
around her, including her stepdaughter, Meg, traumatized by
events from their past that are shrouded in secrecy, and
their loyal servant Dot, who knows and sees more than she
understands. With the Catholic faction on the rise once
more, reformers being burned for heresy, and those close to
the king vying for position, Katherine's survival seems
unlikely. Yet as she treads the razor's edge of court
intrigue, she never quite gives up on love.
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