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Vészterhes időkben a legváratlanabb helyen is fellobban a szerelem. Vagy tán boszorkányság az egész? Átok vagy mindenen átgázoló, ősi szenvedély? És tényleg igaz, hogy minden akadályt legyőz? Anglia, 1648. Angliában polgárháború dúl a királypártiak és a parlamentet támogatók között. A küzdelem a királyság minden sarkába, még a távoli déli területek lápos partjaihoz is elér. Veszélyes idők járnak. Főként egy olyan asszony számára, aki más, mint a többiek… Alinor, a helyi füvesasszony leszármazottja Szentiván-éjkor ellátogat a templomkertbe, hogy a telihold fényében találkozhasson eltűnt férjének szellemével. Ha a kísértet megjelenne, Alinor legalább biztos lehetne abban, hogy a férfi meghalt, kijelenthetné, hogy megözvegyült, s így szabadnak mondhatná magát. Alinor azonban nem szellemmel, hanem egy titkos küldetésen lévő, előkelő férfival találkozik, aki a segítségére szorul. Az asszony úgy dönt, segít neki, hogy átjusson a veszélyes lápvidéken, ám ezzel halálos veszedelembe sodorja magát. Egy nő, aki ismeri a gyógynövényeket, akinek sok irigye van, s aki másként gondolkodik, mint ahogy az asszonyoktól elvárható, a legkevésbé sincs biztonságban, amikor bárkire könnyen rásütik a boszorkányság bélyegét. Philippa Gregory, a királyregények királynője most arra keresi a választ, miként boldogulhat egy talpraesett asszony a férfiak világában, ahol minden szabályszegés és minden felemelkedéssel kecsegtető szerencse varázslatnak minősül, és úgy is járnak el ellene.

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New York Times Bestseller The latest novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory features one of the most famous girls in history, Lady Jane Grey, and her two sisters, each of whom dared to defy her queen.Jane Grey was queen of England for nine days. Her father and his allies crowned her instead of the dead king’s 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 executioner’s block, where Jane transformed her father’s greedy power grab into tragic martyrdom. “Learn you to die,” 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 half sister, Queen Elizabeth, who will never allow Katherine to marry and produce a Tudor son. When Katherine’s pregnancy betrays her secret marriage, she faces imprisonment in the Tower, only yards from her sister’s scaffold. “Farewell, my sister,” writes Katherine to the youngest Grey sister, Mary. A beautiful dwarf, disregarded by the court, Mary keeps family secrets, especially her own, while avoiding Elizabeth’s 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 Queen Elizabeth?

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From “queen of royal fiction” (USA TODAY) Philippa Gregory comes this instant New York Times bestseller that tells the story of the remarkable Elizabeth of York, daughter of the White Queen, and mother to the House of Tudor.When Henry Tudor picks up the crown of England from the mud of Bosworth field, he knows he must marry the princess of the enemy house—Elizabeth of York—to unify a country divided by war for nearly two decades.But his bride is still in love with his slain enemy, Richard III—and her mother and half of England dream of a missing heir, sent into the unknown by the White Queen. While the new monarchy can win power, it cannot win hearts in an England that plots for the triumphant return of the House of York. Henry’s greatest fear is that somewhere a prince is waiting to invade and reclaim the throne. When a young man who would be king leads his army and invades England, Elizabeth has to choose between the new husband she is coming to love and the boy who claims to be her beloved lost brother: the rose of York come home at last.

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The inspiration for the critically acclaimed Starz miniseries The White Queen, #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory brings to life Margaret Beaufort, heiress to the red rose of Lancaster, who charts her way through treacherous alliances to take control of the English throne.Margaret Beaufort never surrenders her belief that her Lancaster house is the true ruler of England, and that she has a great destiny before her. Married to a man twice her age, quickly widowed, and a mother at only fourteen, Margaret is determined to turn her lonely life into a triumph. She sets her heart on putting her son on the throne of England regardless of the cost to herself, to England, and even to the little boy. Disregarding rival heirs and the overwhelming power of the York dynasty, she names him Henry, like the king; sends him into exile; and pledges him in marriage to her enemy Elizabeth of York’s daughter. As the political tides constantly move and shift, Margaret masterminds one of the greatest rebellions of all time—all the while knowing that her son has grown to manhood, recruited an army, and awaits his opportunity to win the greatest prize in all of England. The Red Queen is a novel of conspiracy, passion, and coldhearted ambition, the story of a proud and determined woman who believes that she alone is destined, by her piety and lineage, to shape the course of history.

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Dark Tides,Philippa Gregory.