Her entry begins:
The Tudors are clearly top my non-fiction subjects—and while my new novels are re- tellings, I like to loosely base my plots on actual Tudor history. It was for this reason that I recently picked up Nicola Tallis’s Crown of Blood: The Deadly Inheritance of Lady Jane Grey. Tallis’s easy narrative is more novel-like than a dry biography of the young woman who was officially queen for nine days after Edward VI died, casting aside his half-sisters Mary and Elizabeth in the line of succession in favor of his cousin—who did have a direct line to the throne as her grandmother was Henry VIII’s youngest sister Mary. Jane, who was a scholar and a linguist rivaling her cousin Elizabeth, was first a reluctant bride when her father conspired with the Duke of Northumberland to marry her to his son—and then was a reluctant queen in the plot that would put both her and her husband on the throne. But no matter how reluctant she was, Jane did attempt to...[read on]About A Defiant Woman, from the publisher:
Kate Tudor’s marriage to billionaire Hank Tudor continues to fray when his ex-wife resurfaces in the wake of their daughter’s kidnapping, in the latest novel in this genre-defying crime series.Visit Karen E. Olson's website.
Eight years ago, Nan Tudor escaped her husband, billionaire businessman Hank Tudor, afraid for her life and leaving a dead body behind—but in doing so, sheabandoned her three-year-old daughter, Lizzie. Still wracked with guilt for that decision, she is living a quiet life as a restaurant cook in France with her son when she receives a mysterious text: “We have your daughter.”
Lured back to the scene of the crime on Martha’s Vineyard by a threat against Lizzie’s life, Nan believes the kidnapper is exacting revenge against her, stopping at nothing to do so—and discovers that she and her daughter may not be the only targets. Kate Parker—Hank’s sixth and latest wife—is also on the island and drawn into the kidnapper’s elaborate web of retaliation.
Keeping their alliance secret from Hank, Hank’s fixer Thomas Cromwell, investigator Steve Gardiner, and reporter Tom Seymour, the two women find themselves in a race against time to rescue Lizzie—and to make sure they both stay alive.
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