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Author: Anne O'Brien Publisher: Harlequin ISBN: 1460325362 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 496
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An innocent pawn A kingdom without a king A new dynasty will reign… 1415. The jewel in the French crown, Katherine de Valois, is waiting under lock and key for King Henry V. While he's been slaughtering her kinsmen in Agincourt, Katherine has been praying for marriage to save her from her misery. But the brutal king wants her crown, not her innocent love. For Katherine, England is a lion's den of greed, avarice and mistrust. And when she is widowed at twenty-one, she becomes a prize ripe for the taking—her young son the future monarch, her hand in marriage worth a kingdom. This is a deadly political game, one the dowager queen must learn fast. The players—the Duke of Gloucester, Edmund Beaufort and Owen Tudor—are circling. Who will have her? Who will ruin her? This is the story of Katherine de Valois. "Anne O'Brien has joined the exclusive club of excellent historical novelists." —Sunday Express "An absolutely gripping tale that is both superbly written and meticulously researched." —The Sun
Author: Anne O'Brien Publisher: HarperCollins Australia ISBN: 1460894030 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 479
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1415: The jewel in the French crown, Katherine de Valois, is waiting under lock and key for King Henry V. While he's been slaughtering her kinsmen in Agincourt, Katherine has been praying for marriage to save her from her misery. But the brutal King is one of war. It is her crown he wants not her innocent love. For Katherine, a pawn in a ruthless political game, England is a lion's den of greed, avarice and mistrust. And when the magnificent King leaves her widowed at twenty–one she is a prize ripe for the taking. Her heart is on her sleeve, her young son the future monarch, and her hand in marriage worth a kingdom. This is a deadly game; one the Dowager Queen must learn fast. The players – Duke of Gloucester, Edmund Beaufort and Owen Tudor – are circling. Who will have her? Who will stop her? Who will ruin her?
Author: Anne O'Brien Publisher: Harlequin ISBN: 1460325362 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 496
Book Description
An innocent pawn A kingdom without a king A new dynasty will reign… 1415. The jewel in the French crown, Katherine de Valois, is waiting under lock and key for King Henry V. While he's been slaughtering her kinsmen in Agincourt, Katherine has been praying for marriage to save her from her misery. But the brutal king wants her crown, not her innocent love. For Katherine, England is a lion's den of greed, avarice and mistrust. And when she is widowed at twenty-one, she becomes a prize ripe for the taking—her young son the future monarch, her hand in marriage worth a kingdom. This is a deadly political game, one the dowager queen must learn fast. The players—the Duke of Gloucester, Edmund Beaufort and Owen Tudor—are circling. Who will have her? Who will ruin her? This is the story of Katherine de Valois. "Anne O'Brien has joined the exclusive club of excellent historical novelists." —Sunday Express "An absolutely gripping tale that is both superbly written and meticulously researched." —The Sun
Author: Alice Hogge Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 0060542276 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 463
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One evening in 1588, just weeks after the defeat of the Spanish Armada, two young men landed in secret on a beach in Norfolk, England. They were Jesuit priests, Englishmen, and their aim was to achieve by force of argument what the Armada had failed to do by force of arms: return England to the Catholic Church. Eighteen years later their mission had been shattered by the actions of the Gunpowder Plotters -- a small group of terrorists who famously tried to destroy the Houses of Parliament -- for the Jesuits were accused of having designed "that most horrid and hellish conspiracy." In an unusual turn of events, the future of every Catholic they had hoped to save would soon come to depend on the silence of one Oxford carpenter, a man being tortured in the Tower of London for building priest holes, those bunkers in which the Catholic clergy hid from English authorities. Using contemporary documents, Alice Hogge's brilliant new book pieces together a deadly game of cat-and-mouse between priests and government spies, as Queen Elizabeth and her ministers fought to defend the state, and English Catholics fought to defend their souls. It follows the priests -- God's Secret Agents -- from their schooling on the Continent, through their perilous return journeys and their lonely lives in hiding, to the scaffold, where a gruesome death awaited them. To their government they were traitors; to their fellow Catholics they were glorious martyrs. It was a distinction that the Gunpowder Plot would put to the test. Ultimately God's Secret Agents is the story of men who would die for their cause undone by men who would kill for it.
Author: C. R. Jane Publisher: ISBN: 9781982954185 Category : Languages : en Pages : 192
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Eva has forgotten something.Hints of another life, and who she really is, are whispered to her in dreams, visions, and in her interactions with people who seem to know more about her then they let on. Eva's struggle to find out who or what she is, all while navigating the real world for the first time, is complicated by the confusing relationships she has begun to develop with the three men she has fallen for. Will Eva ever find her happy ending, or will forgotten specters change the course of all she is coming to know?
Author: Linsey Hall Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 256
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No one knows I'm possessed by evil... Everyone thinks that I'm a hero... that I've driven the darkness from the land. What they don't know is that I've driven it into myself. I'm fighting a curse that will lead to the death of all I love. Fortunately, my Fated Mate Iain senses something is wrong. When he learns about the curse, he vows to help. We must delve deep into the dangerous mysteries of my past in hopes of finding a cure. But as the darkness tries to drive a wedge between us, I don't know if our relationship will survive. Or if any of us will.
Author: Justin Scott Publisher: Severn House Publishers Ltd ISBN: 1448312752 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 295
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Two rival queens. An infamous playwright. And a deadly plot for the crown. London, 1600. With no legitimate heir to Queen Elizabeth's throne, and no clear successor with her modern vision of a civilization that thrives in peace and diversity, England is in a supremely perilous moment. Elizabeth's foes understand the power of a poet's voice to shape popular opinion, and force esteemed playwright William Shakespeare to write a script detailing the history of Queen Elizabeth and the catholic Mary Queen of Scots that will tumble the nation into civil war. Faced with a terrible dilemma, Will must navigate a dangerous path through the corridors of the wealthy, the refuse-filled warrens of London and the byzantine world of Elizabethan politics as he tries to save both his family and his own legacy.
Author: Laura Dowers Publisher: Laura Dowers ISBN: 1912968215 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 241
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1588. The Spanish Armada has been defeated, but Elizabeth Tudor has lost the earl of Leicester, the only man she ever loved, and there is no triumph in her heart. But there is a young man who will bring some joy back into her life. His name is Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex and he means to step into Leicester's shoes. But with a difference. Robert has no intention of becoming Elizabeth's slave. He has ambitions that will threaten the queen herself. Surrounded by a generation of courtiers who are tired of worshipping an irritable old hag, Elizabeth knows they are looking forward to the day when a man sits on the throne of England. For Robert, that day cannot come soon enough. If he cannot sit on the throne himself, then he is determined to be the power behind it, even if it means taking Elizabeth's crown by force.
Author: Anne O'Brien
Author: Anne O'Brien
Author: C. R. Jane
Author: Anne O'Brien
Author: Alice Hogge
Author: C. R. Jane
Author: Linsey Hall
Author: Great Britain. Court of King's Bench
Author: Justin Scott
Author: New York (State)
Author: Laura Dowers