To Die For

Name: To Die For
Rating: 4.4 (1583 reviews)

by Sandra Byrd Book 1 in the Tudor Ladies in Waiting series.

First published 2011

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Margaret “Meg” Wyatt accompanies her friend Anne Boleyn as Anne’s relationship with Henry VIII moves from courtship to queenship. Meg’s household service places her near the negotiations, religious arguments and factional competition surrounding the king’s annulment, while her own hopes for marriage are reshaped by loss and evangelical belief.

As Anne’s failure to produce a surviving son weakens her position, Meg witnesses surveillance, accusation and execution from within the queen’s circle. The novel portrays Margaret Lee under her historical identity but imaginatively reconstructs their friendship, using Christian conscience and female loyalty to interpret a political catastrophe whose private details remain uncertain.