COUNTESS ERZEBET BIZECKA appears to have everything a young noblewoman in sixteenth-century Hungary -- or any woman anywhere, for that matter -- could want. She is rich and beautiful. She lives in an enormous castle, attended by dozens of servants. T...
Life in the court of King Henry VIII is a complex game. When fifteen-year-old Catherine Howard catches the king's eye, she quickly transforms from pawn to queen. But even luxury beyond imagination loses its luster as young Catherine finds her life--a...