Books written by Karen Heenan

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  Songbird

  The king and the entire court might be watching, and I wouldn't care. “Yes, sir,” I said. Nick's mouth was warm, ... Mary Carey there with a man who was not her husband. “Are you leaving?” “I'm tired.” He took my arm. “I'll walk you up.

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  A Wider World

  “Indeed, young Hawkins. If you keep your head down and work hard, you can become anything in this world. Even a dangerous heretical traitor, like me.” “I want her back,” he said. “I want her back, and I want him gone.

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  Songbird: A Novel of the Tudor Court

  Bess has the voice of an angel, or so Henry VIII declares when he buys her from her father.

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  Lady, in Waiting

  She serves the queen.

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  A Wider World

  After five years in exile, prickly, introverted Robin Lewis is arrested on a charge of heresy. His best chance of survival is to delay his journey to the Tower - by talking about himself.

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  Lady, in Waiting

  She serves the queen.

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  Songbird

  When her father sells her to the king of England, she balances the loss of all she's known against music and plenty, and builds a new life as a royal minstrel, earning the nickname "the king's songbird.

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  Coming Together: A Novel of Philadelphia and Beyond

  Every marriage is different.