Bertrice Smallwas theNew York Timesbestselling author of more than fifty novels. Among her numerous awards, she was the recipient of the RWA Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award. She lived on the North Fork of the eastern end of Long Island, New York, until her death in 2015.
From the New York Times bestselling reigning queen of romance (Literary Times), comes a love story on a grand scale, featuring an innocent country girl who catches the eye of the most powerful man in England--and filled with all the sensuality, drama, and thrilling intrigues of Henry Tudor's glittering sixteenth-century court...