Once there, Margaret meets Arthur Brandon, the bastard son of the duke of Suffolk, and despite getting off on the wrong foot initially, they fall in love and secretly marry. Margaret Shelton, cousin of the newly minted queen of Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, is sent to court to serve Anne and add to her family's ever growing influence with the mercurial monarch. "A stunningly engrossing and fast read historical fiction readers will snatch it up and shout, ‘Thank you!'"- Library Journal (starred review) She is faced with a terrible dilemma: give herself to the king and betray the love of her life or refuse to become his mistress and jeopardize the life of the her cousin, Queen Anne. But Margaret has fallen deeply in love with a handsome young courtier. But she soon finds herself drawn into the perilous web of Anne's ambition.ĭesperate to hold onto the king's waning affection, Anne schemes to have him take her guileless young cousin as mistress, ensuring her husband's new paramour will owe her loyalty to the queen. A sweeping tale of sexual seduction and intrigue at the court of Henry VIII, At the Mercy of the Queen is a rich and dramatic debut historical about Madge Shelton, cousin and lady-in-waiting to Anne Boleyn.Īt the innocent age of fifteen, Lady Margaret Shelton arrives at the court of Henry VIII and quickly becomes the confidante of her cousin, Queen Anne Boleyn.
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