Age Group: Adults

Description:

Set during England's Wars of the Roses, this historical novel follows Margaret Beaufort, a proud young noblewoman of the House of Lancaster. Married off as a child to a much older man and a mother by the age of fourteen, Margaret becomes certain that God has chosen her family to rule. She dedicates her whole life to a single goal: placing her son, Henry Tudor, on the throne of England. Through years of loveless marriages, secret plots, and shifting loyalties, she schemes against the rival House of York — playing a dangerous game that helps found the Tudor dynasty.