The Plantagenat and Tudor Novels
Touchstone
February 2018
On Sale: February 20, 2018
Featuring: Lady Jane Grey
432 pages ISBN: 1476758778 EAN: 9781476758770 Kindle: B01MQSQ3NT Trade Size / e-Book Add to Wish List
Jane Grey was queen of England for nine days. Her father and his allies crowned her instead of the dead kingโs half-sister Mary Tudor, who quickly mustered an army, claimed her throne, and locked Jane in the Tower of London. When Jane refused to betray her Protestant faith, Mary sent her to the executionerโs block, where Jane transformed her fatherโs greedy power-grab into tragic martyrdom.
โLearn you to die,โ was the advice Jane wrote to her younger sister Katherine, who has no intention of dying. She intends to enjoy her beauty and her youth and fall in love. But she is heir to the insecure and infertile Queen Mary and then to her sister Queen Elizabeth, who will never allow Katherine to marry and produce a Tudor son. When Katherineโs pregnancy betrays her secret marriage, she faces imprisonment in the Tower, only yards from her sisterโs scaffold.
โFarewell, my sister,โ writes Katherine to the youngest Grey sister, Mary. A beautiful dwarf, disregarded by the court, Mary keeps family secrets, especially her own, while avoiding Elizabethโs suspicious glare. After seeing her sisters defy their queens, Mary is acutely aware of her own danger, but determined to command her own life. What will happen when the last Tudor defies her ruthless and unforgiving cousin Queen Elizabeth?
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