From the bestselling author of The Other Boleyn Girl , Philippa Gregory, comes a beautifully atmospheric evocation of the court of Henry VIII and his last queens. The king decides who will live and who will die; he now possesses the power of God. The year is 1539. Henry VIII must choose his fourth wife, and the perilous prize is won by Anne of Cleves. A German-born princess, Anne is used as a pawn in the Protestant alliance against Rome, but the marriage is fraught from the start. Henry finds nothing admirable about his new queen and turns against his advisors and nobles to court the young Katherine Howard. The new queen begins to sense a trap closing around her. Jane Boleyn, too, summoned to the inner circle by her uncle, the Duke of Norfolk, discovers a court divided by the Boleyn legacy, filled with death and deceit. In a kingdom ruled by an increasingly tyrannical king, nothing is certain.