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The Chateau of Briis: A Lesson in Love by historian Alison Weir is an e-short and companion piece to the Sunday Times bestseller Anne Boleyn: A Kings Obsession, the second novel in the spellbinding series about Henry VIIIs queens. 'I was hooked from the very first page and didn't want to put it down. Delve into a tour of the Tower of London in this Six Tudor Queens e-short by foremost and beloved historian Alison Weir. What readers are saying about Joanna Courtney: If you love Elizabeth Chadwick and Anne O'Brien you will adore Joanna Courtney The beginning of a brand new Historical fiction series by the bestselling author of the QUEENS OF CONQUEST series, her new trilogy unearths the real women behind Shakespeare's most infamous queens. In order to reclaim the life she was promised, she will learn to use every weapon at her disposal - even her son. But her dreams are about to be stolen from her as the night she was hoping for turns into a brutal slaughter. On the eve of her sixteenth birthday, a flushed and nervous Cora MacDuff waits to marry her sweetheart, Macbeth. It is North vs South, for two families have a claim on the inheritance of his crown. Scotland, 1020 AD - King Malcolm II is fading fast. But behind the villainous portrait stands a real woman. Discover the real women behind Shakespeare's most infamous queens. The beginning of a brand new historical fiction series by bestselling author Joanna Courtney.
