Honor in the Dust

Name: Honor in the Dust
Rating: 4.17 (411 reviews)

by Gilbert Morris Book 1 in the Winslow Breed series.

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The determined Stuart Winslow will go to any lengths to lift himself and his widowed mother out of poverty. After a distant relative manages to secure a place for Stuart in the court of King Henry VIII, Stuart quickly learns that the court is really a wicked cauldron of vices, power plays, and temptation. As Stuart rises at court, he is asked to find and deliver for execution an enemy of the king—William Tyndale, an acquaintance of Stuart’s whose sole ambition is to translate the Bible into the language of the common man. Does Stuart fall prey to his dangerous ambition and accept the assignment? Or is he willing to face death at the stake for the sake of Christ? But like Morris’s other novels, it also contrasts those excesses with the godly behavior of real-life characters like William Tyndale. Is his faith strong enough to withstand such a challenge?

Set against Henrician Reformation, historical rulers and reformers appear within a fictional family saga about court ambition, religious persecution and Christian conscience.