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Before history remembered her as Bloody Mary, she was simply Mary Tudor a lonely princess raised beneath the shadow of a broken kingdom, abandoned by her father's love, and forced to watch her mother's world crumble.
Among the glittering halls of Greenwich Palace, she finds an unexpected companion in Edmund Meadly, the second son of a northern baron. Their childhood friendship blossoms into a love that must remain hidden, for a princess belongs to the Crown, not to her own heart.
As King Henry VIII tears England apart in his desperate pursuit of an heir, Mary is stripped of her title, declared illegitimate, and separated from everyone she holds dear. Through years of betrayal, imprisonment, religious persecution, and political intrigue, Edmund remains the silent promise she refuses to forget.
But love is a dangerous thing in the Tudor court.
When Mary finally ascends the throne as England's first crowned queen in her own right, she inherits not only a kingdom divided by faith but also a legacy written in blood. Determined to restore England to Catholicism, her reign earns her the infamous name history will never let her escape-The Bloody Queen.