By the King's Order
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She never wanted to marry again. Not after her dismal first marriage. King Henry VIII, besotted with his third wife, decides that he is going to renege on his promise that she would never have to marry again. Arranging a match with the newly appointed Duke of Kent, she is unhappy and frightened that her new husband will become just as the one that died. She is a woman wounded by the past and he is a man who sees life as a game. Will any happiness come of this arrangement or will this marriage be as horrible as the last one? Set against the backdrop of political intrugue, murder and backstabbing, do these two have a chance?
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