The latest novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory features probably one of the most famous ladies in history, Female Jane Grey, and her two sisters, each of whom dared to defy her queen.

Jane Gray was queen of Britain for nine days. Her dad and his allies crowned her rather than the deceased king’s half-sister Mary Tudor, who quickly mustered an army, stated her throne, and locked Jane in the Tower of London. When Jane refused to betray her Protestant trust, Mary sent her to the about The Last Tudor executioner’s block, where Jane transformed her father’s greedy power-grab into tragic martyrdom.

“Find out you to perish,” was the advice Jane had written to her younger sister Katherine, who has no intention of dying. She intends to take pleasure from her beauty and her youngsters and fall in love. But she actually is heir to the insecure and infertile Queen Mary and then to her sister Queen Elizabeth, who will never allow Katherine to marry and create a Tudor son. When Katherine’s being pregnant betrays her magic formula marriage, she faces imprisonment in the Tower, just back yards from her sister’s scaffold.

“Farewell, my sister,” writes Katherine towards the youngest Grey sister, Mary. A beautiful dwarf, disregarded with the court, Mary keeps family secrets, specifically her own, while staying away from Elizabeth’s suspicious glare. After viewing her sisters defy their queens, Mary is acutely alert to her own risk, but established to control her own lifestyle. What will happen when the last Tudor defies her ruthless and unforgiving cousin Queen Elizabeth?