La disobbediente
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Questa autrice acclamata dalla critica crea avvincenti thriller storici ambientati durante i turbolenti periodi Tudor ed Elisabettiano della storia inglese. I suoi romanzi sono celebrati per le loro intricate trame e l'esplorazione di relazioni complesse all'interno di ambientazioni storiche riccamente dettagliate. I lettori sono attratti dalla sua capacità di intrecciare narrazioni suspense piene di profondità psicologica e colpi di scena inaspettati. La sua voce distintiva dà vita al passato con un occhio attento all'atmosfera e al dramma umano.







Historischer Roman
Liebe, Macht und tödliche Missgunst ... England 1615: Die junge Frances ist adlig und atemberaubend schön, der ganze Königshof liegt ihr zu Füßen. Doch ihre dunkle Vergangenheit lässt sich nicht ungeschehen machen – und um ihr neues Leben zu schützen, würde sie alles tun. Dann der Skandal, der ganz London erschüttert: Frances wird wegen eines furchtbaren Verdachts verhaftet und in den Tower gebracht. Auch Frances‘ geheimnisvoller Ehemann Robert ist angeklagt. Aus den ehemals Liebenden werden plötzlich Gegner, denn beide wissen, dass nur einer mit dem Leben davonkommen wird …
"England in the sixteenth century. A country riven by political plots. A woman trapped by blood, imprisoned by those closest to her. A poet tasked with saving her. A man willing to risk everything to set her free. Arbella Stuart is trapped behind the towering glass windows of Hardwick Hall. Kept cloistered from a world that is full of dangers for someone with royal blood. Half the country wish to see her on the throne and many others for her death, which would leave the way clear for her cousin James, the Scottish King. Arbella longs to be free from her cold-hearted grandmother; to love who she wants, to wear a man's trousers and ride her beloved horse, Dorcas. But if she ever wishes to break free she must learn to navigate the treacherous game of power, or end up dead."
Het wel en wee van twee zussen met koninklijk bloed ligt in handen van eerst de katholieke koningin Mary en later van de koelbloedige Elizabeth van Engeland.
Penelope Devereux is a legendary beauty in the court of Elizabeth I. Walking the knife-edge of court, whilst ensuring that her reckless brother Essex remains the only star in the Queen's firmament - and out of the Tower - Penelope must plan for the inevitable succession of an ailing monarch.
1554: Lady Jane Grey is executed by her cousin Queen Mary. Now Lady Jane's younger sisters Katherine and Mary, cursed with the Tudor blood that saw their sister killed, face the perils of the royal court alone. Lady Katherine - young and spirited - makes dangerous romantic liaisons.
Doba bouřlivé vlády Marie I. Tudorovny. Lady Kateřina a lady Marie Greyovy jsou otřeseny brutální popravou své starší, sedmnáctileté sestry Jany, takzvané devítidenní královny. Otázka nástupnictví zůstává otevřená. Pod rukou Elizabeth Fremantleové ožívají postavy těchto dvou mladinkých dívek v dech beroucím příběhu lásky a politiky. Ani jedna ze sester se pro nesnadný život u dvora příliš nehodí. Lehkomyslná Kateřina, považovaná mnohými vlivnými osobami za právoplatnou nástupkyni na trůn, nedokáže ovládat vlastní emoce a potřebu milovat a být milována. Její sestra, přemýšlivá a bystrá Marie, má zdeformovanou páteř a je zakrslého vzrůstu, což se považuje za ďáblovo znamení. I tudorovská krev, která oběma dívkám koluje v žilách, je pro ně víc prokletím než požehnáním. Jsou figurkami na královské šachovnici, manipulované, střídavě zahrnované přízní i podezřívané ze spiknutí a velezrady. Zpočátku dívkám pomáhá dvorní malířka Levina Teerlingová, ale když na trůn nastoupí nevyzpytatelná Alžběta, život u dvora se pro sestry Greyovy stává ještě riskantnějším. Každá sama se nakonec musí rozhodovat, do jaké míry bude královně vzdorovat a hledat lásku a klid, po kterém tak touží.
Widowed for the second time at age thirty-one Katherine Parr falls deeply for the dashing courtier Thomas Seymour and hopes at last to marry for love. However, obliged to return to court, she attracts the attentions of the ailing, egotistical, and dangerously powerful Henry VIII, who dispatches his love rival, Seymour, to the Continent. No one is in a position to refuse a royal proposal so, haunted by the fates of his previous wives - two executions, two annulments, one death in childbirth - Katherine must wed Henry and become his sixth queen. Katherine has to employ all her instincts to navigate the treachery of the court, drawing a tight circle of women around her, including her stepdaughter, Meg, traumatized by events from their past that are shrouded in secrecy, and their loyal servant Dot, who knows and sees more than she understands. With the Catholic faction on the rise once more, reformers being burned for heresy, and those close to the king vying for position, Katherine's survival seems unlikely. Yet as she treads the razor's edge of court intrigue, she never quite gives up on love.