Daughter of Time
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From the minute she is sent to Hatfield, Mary Tudors' life, would never be the same again.
When Mary Tudor receives the letter she has been dreading for years, it changes her world more than she ever could have imagined.
The once indulged and sheltered heir to the throne of England, Mary is cast into the brutal and harsh reality that is her fathers' realm.
Living as a prisoner, and forced to serve as a maid to her usurping half-sister, the daughter of Marys' deadly enemy, her ill-treatment will ultimately shape her life as a pious, and determinedly stubborn woman.
Through four more of her fathers' marriages, a battle of religious liberty with her once adoring brother and her increasingly strained relationship with her sister, Mary must draw on her remarkable bravery and determination, to not only overcome the prejudices of her gender, but to also guide her to the most powerful, and dangerous role of all: the throne of England.
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