The acclaimed international bestseller of the Tudor court, during the years of Henry VIIIs pursuit of Anne Boleyn - and the revolutionary sequence of events that followed. n n n n This chance for us Howards comes once in a century... n n n n 1521. Henry VIII rules over a fashionable court alive with pageant and celebration, the lack of a son his only threat. When young Mary Boleyn arrives at court, she becomes his new mistress, an unwitting pawn in the ambitions of the powerful Boleyn and Howard families. n n n As Henrys interest begins to wane, the Boleyns scheme to put forward Marys sister, Anne. Yet Anne Boleyn, newly returned from the French court, wont agree to be Henrys mistress - only his wife. n n n Pitting the kings desperation for an heir against the advice of his powerful advisors, Wolsey and Cromwell, what follows will change the course of a countrys history. n