Robert Brall

The Sparkly Dark Road Of Anne Boleyn Robert Brall

The grisly deaths of Queen Anne Boleyn and her lovers have shocked and fascinated readers for 500 years. In this novel, Diana, Princess of Wales is thrown five hundred years into the past to meet King Henry VIII's second wife. The beautiful and daring Anne Boleyn astonishes and inspires the Tudor court, when she returns home to serve Queen Katherine of Aragon. Anne has grown up in the court of France and fascinates the English courtiers with frankness, challenging views, knowledge and and education. When plans to make an advantageous marriage flounder, Anne Boleyn falls in love with Lord Henry Percy. Their dreams to marry are thwarted by the King, who desires Anne for himself. The choices Anne makes, lead her down a perilous path to become Queen of England, but will she ever find love and fulfillment? How will she give an increasingly impotent King the healthy son he so desperately needs? By turns ironic, bloody, cruel and romantic, The Sparkly Dark Road Of Anne Boleyn is an electrifying and absorbing story of one of history's most fascinating and complex women. King Henry VIII, Cardinal Wolsey, Thomas Cromwell, Lady Rochford, George and Mary Boleyn, Mark Smeaton, King Francois and Queen Claude of France and many others, are all brought vividly to life in this revised and engaging novel of Tudor history.