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The Chalice
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Artikel-Nr:
9781476708669
Veröffentl:
2014
Erscheinungsdatum:
18.03.2014
Seiten:
512
Autor:
Nancy Bilyeau
Gewicht:
402 g
Format:
205x136x32 mm
Serie:
Joanna Stafford
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Nancy Bilyeau, author of The Crown and The Chalice, is a writer and magazine editor who has worked on the staffs of InStyle, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, and Good Housekeeping. She is currently the executive editor of Du Jour magazine. A native of the Midwest, she lives in New York City with her husband and two children. Visit her website at NancyBilyeau.com.
What would you sacrifice to protect your way of life? In the sixteenth century, a young nun risks everything to defy the most powerful authorities, fulfill a prophecy, and preserve the future of Christendom.BETWEEN THE CROWN AND THE CROSS STANDS ONE WOMAN IN 1538, ENGLAND is in the midst of bloody power struggles that threaten to tear the country apart. Aristocrat-turned-novice Joanna Stafford knows what lies inside the king's torture rooms and risks imprisonment when she is caught up in an international plot targeting the king. As the power plays turn vicious, Joanna understands she may have to assume her role in a prophecy foretold by three different seers. Joanna realizes the life of Henry VIII, as well as the future of Christendom, are in her hands?hands that must someday hold the chalice that lies at the center of these deadly prophecies. . . .