From "the queen of royal fiction" (<I>USA TODAY</I>) comes this <I>New York Times</I> bestseller featuring three very different women whose fates are each bound by a bloody curse: the legacy of the Boleyn family.<BR>After the death of his third wife, Jane Seymour, King Henry VIII of England decides to take a new wife, but this time, not for love. <I>The Boleyn Inheritance</I> follows three women whose lives are forever changed because of the king's decision, as they must balance precariously in an already shaky Tudor Court.<BR> <BR> Anne of Cleves is to be married to Henry to form a political alliance, though the rocky relationship she has to the king does not bode well for her or for England.<BR> <BR> Katherine Howard is the young, beautiful woman who captures Henry's eye, even though he is set to marry Anne. Her spirit runs free and her passions run hot&#8212;though her affections may not be returned upon the King.<BR> <BR> Jane Rochford was married to George Boleyn, and it was her testimony that sent her husband and infamous sister-in-law Anne to their deaths. Throughout the country, her name is known for malice, jealousy, and twisted lust.<BR> <BR> <I>The Boleyn Inheritance</I> is a novel drawn tight as a lute string about three women whose positions brought them wealth, admirations, and power, as well as deceit, betrayal, and terror.

Unabridged.