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Zusatztext " The Chalice offers a fresh! dynamic look into Tudor England's most powerful! volatile personalities: Henry VIII! the Duke of Norfolk! Stephen Gardiner! and Bloody Mary Tudor. Heroine and former nun Joanna Stafford is beautiful! bold and in lethal danger. Bilyeau writes compellingly of people and places that demand your attention and don't let you go even after the last exciting page." Informationen zum Autor Nancy Bilyeau, author of The Crown and The Chalice , is a writer and magazine editor who has worked on the staffs of InStyle , Rolling Stone , Entertainment Weekly , and Good Housekeeping . She is currently the executive editor of Du Jour magazine. A native of the Midwest, she lives in New York City with her husband and two children. Visit her website at NancyBilyeau.com. Klappentext In sixteenth-century England, Joanna Stafford matches wits against powerful men when she's caught up in a shadowy plot targeting Henry VIII. Zusammenfassung What would you sacrifice to protect your way of life? In the sixteenth century! a young nun risks everything to defy the most powerful authorities! fulfill a prophecy! and preserve the future of Christendom. BETWEEN THE CROWN AND THE CROSS STANDS ONE WOMAN IN 1538! ENGLAND is in the midst of bloody power struggles that threaten to tear the country apart. Aristocrat-turned-novice Joanna Stafford knows what lies inside the king’s torture rooms and risks imprisonment when she is caught up in an international plot targeting the king. As the power plays turn vicious! Joanna understands she may have to assume her role in a prophecy foretold by three different seers. Joanna realizes the life of Henry VIII! as well as the future of Christendom! are in her hands—hands that must someday hold the chalice that lies at the center of these deadly prophecies. . . .
