Innocent Traitor by Alison Weir [Paperback: Good]

Paperback in Good condition (421 pages)

I am now a condemned traitor . . . I am to die when I have hardly begun to live.

Historical expertise marries page-turning fiction in Alison Weirs enthralling debut novel, breathing new life into one of the most significant and tumultuous periods of the English monarchy.  It is the story of Lady Jane Grey - the Nine Days Queen - a fifteen-year-old girl who unwittingly finds herself at the center of the religious and civil unrest that nearly toppled the fabled House of Tudor during the sixteenth century.

The child of a scheming father and a ruthless mother, for whom she is merely a pawn in a dynastic game with the highest stakes, Jane Grey was born during the harrowingly turbulent period between Anne Boleyns beheading and the demise of Janes infamous great-uncle, King Henry VIII.  With the premature passing of Janes adolescent cousin, and Henrys successor, King Edward VI, comes a struggle for supremacy fueled by political machinations and lethal religious fervor.

Unabashedly honest and exceptionally intelligent, Jane possesses a sound strength of character beyond her years that equips her to weather the vicious storm.  And though she has no ambitions to rule, preferring to immerse herself in books and religious studies, she is forced to accept the crown, and by so doing sets off a firestorm of intrigue, betrayal, and tragedy.