A conclusion to the series that began with The Boleyn King and The Boleyn Deceit follows the efforts of Elizabeth Tudor to assemble a shadow court to safeguard the country from her smallpox-scarred younger brother. Original. 30,000 first printing.
The green was covered in a thin rime of frost and a heavier layer of mud ... As Lord Chancellor, Burghley'd had the task of informing Mary just an hour ago ...
Struggling to prove himself as the French threaten battle and the Catholics plot at home, 17-year-old King Henry IX, known as William, relies on his best friend and Loyal counselor, Dominic, until they both fall in love with the same woman- ...
Robert, probably—he was the one who haddistracted Minuette while his father's lackey attempted murder. Robert claimed to not have known aboutthe poison —and Minuette claimed to believe him—but Williamwas not persuaded. “Your Majesty.
Eleanor Percy Howard Gage Stafford (she had a gift for outliving husbands) drew male eyes wherever she went, no matter that she was nearing fifty. But then Eleanor had always had the trick of making the most of her assets.
Lady-in-waiting Jane Boleyn, the only survivor of the ambitious Boleyn family, testifies against Henry VIII's latest queen, Anne of Cleves, and conspires to place her young cousin, Katherine Howard, on the throne.
There was Madeleine with her tumble of red hair, and Sophie who giggled when kissed, and Blanche with her exceptionally skilled hands. There had been a time when Nicolas would have been the one to know (in every sense) these women, ...
Even through what he could remember of his childhood, Aidan knew she had lived mostly in the dower house in Kilkenny that her brief marriage had brought her. But being a Gallagher, Nessa considered the castle to be as much hers as her ...
he asked Martin. “To make you see sense. Dane did you a favour, pulling you out of Cahir before it was too late.” “It was only too late because Dane made good and certain to blow my cover.” “You did that yourself—the moment you allowed ...
Fallen Skies takes readers to post-World War I England in a suspenseful story about the marriage of a wealthy war hero and an aspiring singer he barely knows.
Winner of the 2012 Man Booker Prize Winner of the 2012 Costa Book of the Year Award The sequel to Hilary Mantel's 2009 Man Booker Prize winner and New York Times bestseller, Wolf Hall delves into the heart of Tudor history with the downfall ...