Simon & Schuster
July 2015
On Sale: June 30, 2015
Featuring: Lady Catherine Grey; Lady Mary Grey
480 pages ISBN: 1476703108 EAN: 9781476703107 Kindle: B00GEEB93I Paperback / e-Book (reprint) Add to Wish List
From the author of Queen’s Gambit, which
People magazine called, “A must-read for Philippa
Gregory fans,” a gripping historical novel about two sisters
who tread as dangerously close to the crown as their tragic
sister, Lady Jane Grey, executed after just nine days on the
throne.
Early in Mary Tudor’s turbulent reign, Lady
Catherine and Lady Mary Grey are reeling after the brutal
execution of their elder seventeen-year-old sister, Lady
Jane Grey, and the succession is by no means stable. In
Sisters of Treason, Elizabeth Freemantle brings these
young women to life in a spellbinding Tudor tale of love and
politics.
Neither sister is well suited to a
dangerous life at court. Flirtatious Lady Catherine, thought
to be the true heir, cannot control her compulsion to love
and be loved. Her sister, clever Lady Mary, has a crooked
spine and a tiny stature in an age when physical perfection
equates to goodness—and both girls have inherited the Tudor
blood that is more curse than blessing. For either girl to
marry without royal permission would be a potentially fatal
political act. It is the royal portrait painter, Levina
Teerlinc, who helps the girls survive these troubled times.
She becomes their mentor and confidante, but when the
Queen’s sister, the hot-headed Elizabeth, inherits the
crown, life at court becomes increasingly treacherous for
the surviving Grey sisters. Ultimately each young woman must
decide how far she will go to defy her Queen, risk her life,
and find the safety and love she longs for.
From “a
brilliant new player in the court of royal fiction,”
(People) Sisters of Treason brings to vivid
life the perilous and romantic lives of two little known
young women who played a major role in the complex politics
of their day
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