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Title: The Crown

Author: Nancy Bilyeau

Narrator: Charlie Norfolk

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16 hrs and 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-27-14

Publisher: Orion Publishing Group

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

London, May 1537. As those closest to the throne are locked in a fierce fight against those desperate to save England's monasteries from destruction, young Joanna Stafford faces a far more personal battle.

When Joanna learns her cousin is about to be burned at the stake for rebelling against Henry VIII, she makes a decision that will change not only her life, but quite possibly the fate of a nation. It will mean turning her back on everything she knows, for Joanna is a novice at Dartford Priory - and to save her family, she must break the sacred rule of enclosure.

But running away is only the first transgression. From the Tower of London, to secret assignations and from Stonehenge to the royal court - Joanna becomes entangled with a secret whose deadly past stretches farther back than anyone had imagined.

As her mission draws a trail in blood from the last whispered words of a queen to a pattern of unnatural deaths in the royal lineage, Joanna must determine who to trust, and how far she's willing to go to protect her life, her family and everything she holds dear.

Members Reviews:

I really loved this book

I really loved this book. I started it during a busy week and kept longing to get back to it. I don't want to say too much and give away any of the plot--which had twists that took me by surprise. One review calls this a cross between The Other Boleyn Girl and The Da Vinci Code. I'd say that was spot on. If you like Tudor novels and mysteries, this is the book for you.

Intrigue and nasty secrets abound. Excited for the next adventure

Joanna Stafford is a novice at a Dominican convent when her cousin, her only friend from childhood, is set to burn after her role in Pilgrimage of Grace. Breaking all the rules, Joanna goes to the burning so that her cousin sees a friendly face and maybe to bury her. Instead, Joanna is arrested along with a nice constable and her father who ran gunpowder to the fire. This gets her sent to the tower as a possible rebel which puts her in the net of some powerful relatives who have no use for her antics. Bishop Gardiner sends her back with a quest for a mythic crown that is supposed to be hidden in the convent. Cromwell wants it as well. Intrigue and nasty secrets abound. Excited for the next adventure

A breathtaking mix of fact and fiction!

Joanna Stafford forsook the life of a noblewoman that was her birthright as a niece to the Duke of Buckingham for a life of seclusion and spirituality as a Dominican novice at the famed Dartford Priory. These are turbulent times in which to dedicated oneself to the service of the Catholic Church, as ever since Henry VIII obtained the dissolution of his marriage from Katherine of Aragon, the monasteries and priories so beloved by that queen and her supporters have found themselves under attack. All are threatened with dissolution at best, torture and a martyr's death at worst for not bowing to Henry's edict demanding they swear an Oath of Supremacy, binding them to the king first and foremost and ceding to the authority of the new Church of England. But safely ensconced within Dartford's walls, Joanna paid little heed to the tumult of religious politics consuming the outside world, until she receives news she cannot ignore - her beloved cousin has been sentenced to death.