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Book

Firebrand

Call Number

  • FICTION FREM (CEN, OSH)

Edition

First Simon & Schuster trade paperback edition.

Publication Information

New York : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2024.

Physical Description

420 pages ; 21 cm

Uniform Title

Queen's gambit

Summary

"Widowed for the second time at age thirty-one, Katherine Parr falls deeply for the dashing courtier Thomas Seymour and hopes at last to marry for love. Instead, she attracts the amorous attentions of the ailing, egotistical, and dangerously powerful Henry VIII. No one is in a position to refuse a royal proposal. Haunted by the fates of his previous wives--two executions, two annulments, one death in childbirth--Katherine must wed Henry and rely on her wits and the help of her loyal servant Dot to survive the treacherous pitfalls of life as Henry's queen. Yet as she treads the razor's edge of court intrigue, she never quite gives up on love"--

Notes

"Originally published in Great Britain in 2013 by Penguin Books as Queen's Gambit."--Title page verso.

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