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Philippa Gregory's Tudor Court 6-Book Boxed Set: The Constant Princess, The Other Boleyn Girl, The Boleyn Inheritance, The Queen's Fool, The Virgin's Lover, and The Other Queen by Philippa Gregory
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe six-book bosed set of the bestselling Tudor Court novels by Philippa Gregory, #1 New York Times bestselling author and "the queen of royal fiction" (USA TODAY): The Constant Princess, The Other Boleyn Girl, The Boleyn Inheritance, The Queen's Fool, The Virgin's Lover, and The Other Queen... -
![A Family’s Heartbreak by Kitty Neale]()
A Family’s Heartbreak by Kitty Neale
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAll they ever wanted was somewhere to call home… Beaten When Jenny’s mother abandons her and her younger siblings, Jenny is left at the mercy of her abusive father Henry. And when Henry beats his eldest daughter so badly that she ends up in the hospital, it seems like there’s nowhere left for them all to go...Categorized as:
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![Rindu by Tere Liye]()
Rindu by Tere Liye
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 20 ratings"Apalah arti memiliki, ketika diri kami sendiri bukanlah milik kami?Apalah arti kehilangan, ketika kami sebenarnya menemukan banyak saat kehilangan, dan sebaliknya, kehilangan banyak pula saat menemukan?Apalah arti cinta, ketika menangis terluka atas perasaan yg seharusnya indah? Bagaimana mungkin, kami terduduk patah hati atas sesuatu yg seharusnya suci dan tidak menuntut apa pun?Wahai,... -
![Falling Pomegranate Seeds: The Duty of Daughters by Wendy J. Dunn]()
Falling Pomegranate Seeds: The Duty of Daughters by Wendy J. Dunn
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDońa Beatriz Galindo. Respected scholar. Tutor to royalty. Friend and advisor to Queen Isabel of Castile. Beatriz is an uneasy witness to the Holy War of Queen Isabel and her husband, Ferdinand, King of Aragon. A Holy War seeing the Moors pushed out of territories ruled by them for centuries. The road for women is a hard one...Categorized as:
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![The Rose Stone by Teresa Crane]()
The Rose Stone by Teresa Crane
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA dazzling jewel holds the key to a prosperous new life… or total ruin The Rose Stone. A diamond, gained through betrayal and blood, upon which the Rosenberg family's fortunes were founded and whose price is yet to be paid. Kiev, 1875: Josef Rosenberg narrowly escapes death from a Cossack raid, rescuing Tanya, the youngest daughter of his old friend Boris Anatov...Categorized as:
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![Jane Seymour: The Haunted Queen by Alison Weir]()
Jane Seymour: The Haunted Queen by Alison Weir
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA novel of the devout young woman who became the unwilling object of King Henry VIII's ardor - and the mother of his only son. In this third book in the epic Six Tudor Queens series, the acclaimed historian and best-selling author brings new insight to this dramatic story, showing how pure fear for her life determined Jane Seymour's actions...Categorized as:
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![Philippa Gregory's The Cousins' War 3-Book Boxed Set: The Red Queen, The White Queen, and The Lady of the Rivers by Philippa Gregory]()
Philippa Gregory's The Cousins' War 3-Book Boxed Set: The Red Queen, The White Queen, and The Lady of the Rivers by Philippa Gregory
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Red Queen In a novel of conspiracy, passion, and coldhearted ambition, number one bestselling author Philippa Gregory has brought to life the story of a proud and determined woman who believes that she alone is destined, by her piety and lineage, to shape the course of history...Categorized as:
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![Wild Western Women Mistletoe, Montana: Sweet Western Historical Holiday Box Set by Caroline Clemmons, Sylvia McDaniel]()
Wild Western Women Mistletoe, Montana: Sweet Western Historical Holiday Box Set by Caroline Clemmons, Sylvia McDaniel
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMistletoe Mistake by Caroline Clemmons Shannon Callahan worked hard to become a physician. In New York, she meets resistance to a woman doctor and feels she is no more than a midwife. When the opportunity arises for her to go to Montana and be the only doctor in the town of Mistletoe, she grabs the chance. Riley McCallister is sheriff of Mistletoe... -
![The Homecoming by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles]()
The Homecoming by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings1885 - The Late Victorian era With the death of her rector husband Henrietta is finally free to marry her love, the wealthy and handsome Jerome Compton. But Victorian propriety disapproves of Jerome's divorced status, and the couple are forced to seek anonymity in London. Henrietta finds she takes to urban life with great enjoyment, and she meets and becomes close to her cousin, Lady Venetia... -
![The Bridled Tongue by Catherine Meyrick]()
The Bridled Tongue by Catherine Meyrick
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDeath and life are in the power of the tongue. England 1586 Alyce Bradley has few choices when her father decides it is time she marry as many refuse to see her as other than the girl she once was—unruly, outspoken and close to her grandmother, a woman suspected of witchcraft...Categorized as:
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![Above All Others by G. Lawrence]()
Above All Others by G. Lawrence
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJune 1527 Anne Boleyn has won the heart of her King. Promised a crown, and a place beside him on the throne of England, Anne's future is dazzling... But her challenges have only just begun. Quickly it becomes apparent there are many opposed to the annulment of Henry's marriage, and to Anne taking Katherine's place as Queen...Categorized as:
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![Heart of Disaster: A Titanic Novel of love and loss by Rachel Wesson]()
Heart of Disaster: A Titanic Novel of love and loss by Rachel Wesson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThursday, April 11, 1912 Inspired by true events, Heart of Disaster is the fictionalized story of the Irish steerage passengers who joined RMS Titanic. The legend says "Thursday's child has far to go" but nobody knew just how troublesome this journey would prove. Four single friends, a newly married couple and a stoker who works in the belly of the gigantic ship meet that fateful night... -
![Maggie by Lena Kennedy]()
Maggie by Lena Kennedy
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBorn in the rough heart of London's East End, like a resilient city flower struggling toward the meager sun, Maggie kept on... ...through the death of her beloved father, her cherished marriage to a wayward husband of great tenderness and sudden brutality, the solitary fight to raise her four sons and the birth of her "coffee-colored baby," Maggie kept on... .. -
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Philippa Gregory 3-Book Tudor Collection 1 by Philippa Gregory
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom the bestselling author of THE WHITE QUEEN, now a hit BBC TV production - the first three novels of her Tudor Court series: THE CONSTANT PRINCESS, THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL, THE BOLEYN INHERITANCETHE CONSTANT PRINCESS tells the story of Henry VIII’s first wife, Katherine of Aragon, the Spanish princess raised to be Queen of England and first brought to England to marry Henry’s older brother,... -
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![Katherine of Aragón: The True Queen by Alison Weir]()
Katherine of Aragón: The True Queen by Alison Weir
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsBestselling author and acclaimed historian Alison Weir takes on what no fiction writer has done before: creating a dramatic six-book series in which each novel covers one of King Henry VIII's wives. In this captivating opening volume, Weir brings to life the tumultuous tale of Katherine of Aragón. Henry's first, devoted, and "true" queen... -
![El Rey de Les Halles by Juliette Benzoni, Francisco Rodriguez de Lecea]()
El Rey de Les Halles by Juliette Benzoni, Francisco Rodriguez de Lecea
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWearing a dress that is splattered with blood and clasping a doll to her chest, Sylvie de Valaines, a four-year-old girl, wanders the streets of the small village of Anet. The year is 1626 and her entire family has just been murdered, likely on the orders of Cardinal Richelieu. When a young boy of 10--Francois de Borbon-Vendome, the prince of Martigues--finds her, he brings her to his castle... -
![Nelly Kelly: An uplifting tale of grit and determination in the most desperate of circumstances by Lena Kennedy]()
Nelly Kelly: An uplifting tale of grit and determination in the most desperate of circumstances by Lena Kennedy
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the turmoil and confusion of London's East End between the wars, young Nelly Kelly soon learns that life may never match her expectations. Forced to keep house for her autocratic, charming father, Nelly toils in a sweatshop to keep her family fed and clothed. But when life is hard, Nelly has friendship, dancing and her early dreams to cling to... -
![The Sun in Splendour by Juliet Dymoke]()
The Sun in Splendour by Juliet Dymoke
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Wars of the Roses are at a decisive stage. On the battlefield, the tide appears to have turned against Edward IV and his Plantagenet dynasty is under threat. At court, his new wife and her ambitious family are undermining his power and advancing their own positions. For those wearing the white rose of York, the future looks bleak... -
![The Queen's Exiles by Barbara Kyle]()
The Queen's Exiles by Barbara Kyle
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings1572. Europe is in turmoil. In the Netherlands the streets are red with the blood of those who dare to oppose the brutal Spanish occupation. A vengeful faction of exiled English Catholics is plotting to overthrow Queen Elizabeth and install her cousin Mary, Queen of Scots on the throne. But amid the unrest, one resourceful young woman has made a lucrative enterprise .. -
![The Nice Bloke by Catherine Cookson]()
The Nice Bloke by Catherine Cookson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRooney values his independence and has managed to avoid four widows and two spinsters. But once he moved to Ma Howell's place, life became very complicated. Harry is the "nice bloke" who succumbs to the office vamp at the Christmas party, and sets off a scandal that changes everything... -
![The Most Dangerous Enemy by G. Lawrence]()
The Most Dangerous Enemy by G. Lawrence
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe witty, wily princess, Elizabeth Tudor has survived the turmoil of her formative years, and finally, is now Queen of England. Rising to the throne on a wave of popularity, Elizabeth is keen to avoid the mistakes of her siblings, and bring England to a new sense of unity and hope. But in the first two years of her reign, Elizabeth will be tested as in no other...Categorized as:
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![A White Bird Flying by Bess Streeter Aldrich]()
A White Bird Flying by Bess Streeter Aldrich
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAbbie Deal, the matriarch of a pioneer Nebraska family, has died at the beginning of A White Bird Flying, leaving her china and heavy furniture to others and to her granddaughter Laura the secret of her dream of finer things...Categorized as:
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![Bill Bailey by Catherine Cookson]()
Bill Bailey by Catherine Cookson
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBill Bailey came into the life of a young widow Fiona Nelson and her three children as a lodger. He appeared to be ordinary enough but behind his rough charm lay some remarkable qualities, which were to have a great and lasting effect on the future lives of Fiona and the children. Before long Fiona and Bill are married and they embark on a life together... -
![Jane the Quene by Janet Ambrosi Wertman]()
Jane the Quene by Janet Ambrosi Wertman
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAll Jane Seymour wants is a husband; but when she catches the eye of a volatile king, she is pulled deep into the Tudor court's realm of plot and intrigue....England. 1535. Jane Seymour is 27 years old and increasingly desperate to marry and secure her place in the world... -
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![The Dark Rose by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles]()
The Dark Rose by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratings1501: Henry VIII Paul, great-grandson of Elanor Morland, has inherited the Morland estates, and his own Amyas is set to be his heir. But Paul fathers a beloved illigitimate son, and bitter jealousy causes a destructive rift between the two half-brothers which will lead to death... -
![Katheryn Howard, the Scandalous Queen by Alison Weir]()
Katheryn Howard, the Scandalous Queen by Alison Weir
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAlison Weir, historian and author of the Sunday Times-bestselling Six Tudor Queens series, relates one of the most tragic stories in English history: Katheryn Howard, Henry VIII's fifth queen.A naive girl, thrust forward by her ambitious family. A pretty girl, who has captured the heart of the King. Katheryn sings, she dances, she delights in the pleasures of being queen...Categorized as:
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![To Dance with Kings by Rosalind Laker]()
To Dance with Kings by Rosalind Laker
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsOn a May morning in 1664, in the small village of Versailles, as hundreds of young aristocrats are coming to pay court to King Louis XIV, a peasant fan-maker gives birth to her first and only child, Marguerite... -
![A Rose for the Crown by Anne Easter Smith]()
A Rose for the Crown by Anne Easter Smith
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn A Rose for the Crown, we meet one of history's alleged villains through the eyes of a captivating new heroine -- the woman who was the mother of his illegitimate children, a woman who loved him for who he really was, no matter what the cost to herself...Categorized as:
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![Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession by Alison Weir]()
Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession by Alison Weir
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsBorn into a noble English family, Anne is barely a teenager when she is sent from her family’s Hever Castle to serve at the royal court of the Netherlands. This strategic move on the part of her opportunistic father also becomes a chance for the girl to grow and discover herself... -
![The Triumph of the Lions by Stefania Auci]()
The Triumph of the Lions by Stefania Auci
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsKnown as the Lions of Sicily, the Florios have officially arrived. Once rich only in ambition, the family has amassed a fortune that includes palaces, factories, ships, silks, and jewels. The city of Sicily admires them, honors them and, above all, fears them...Categorized as:
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![I, Elizabeth by Rosalind Miles]()
I, Elizabeth by Rosalind Miles
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsPublicly declared a bastard at the age of three, daughter of a disgraced and executed mother, last in the line of succession to the throne of England, Elizabeth I inherited an England ravaged by bloody religious conflict, at war with Spain and France, and badly in debt...Categorized as:
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![Dawnlands by Philippa Gregory]()
Dawnlands by Philippa Gregory
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIt is 1685, England is on the brink of a renewed civil war against the Stuart kings and many families are bitterly divided. Ned Ferryman cannot persuade his sister, Alinor, that he is right to return from America with his Pokanoket servant, Rowan, to join the rebel army. Instead, Alinor has been coaxed by the manipulative Livia to save the queen from the coming siege... -
![Murder Most Royal by Jean Plaidy]()
Murder Most Royal by Jean Plaidy
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsOne powerful king. Two tragic queens. In the court of Henry VIII, it was dangerous for a woman to catch the king’s eye. Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard were cousins. Both were beautiful women, though very different in temperament. They each learned that Henry’s passion was all-consuming–and fickle... -
![Now Face to Face by Karleen Koen]()
Now Face to Face by Karleen Koen
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe beloved heroine from Koen's bestselling Through a Glass Darkly returns in a passionate, unforgettable, romantic tapestry. A widow at age 20, emotionally devastated and financially ruined by the death of her husband in scandalous circumstances, Barbara Devane leaves colonial Virginia for London to confront her enemies and to pursue a deeply satisfying yet dangerous clandestine love... -
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![Courtesan by Diane Haeger]()
Courtesan by Diane Haeger
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAmid the disapproving gossip of the Court, a royal romance defies all obstacles. The Court of François I is full of lust, intrigue, and bawdy bon tempsâ��a different world from the quiet country life Diane de Poitiers led with her elderly husband... -
![Queen of This Realm by Jean Plaidy]()
Queen of This Realm by Jean Plaidy
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn this "memoir" by Elizabeth I, legendary historical novelist Jean Plaidy reveals the Virgin Queen as she truly was: the bewildered, motherless child of an all-powerful father; a captive in the Tower of London; a shrewd politician; a lover of the arts; and eventually, an icon of an era... -
![The Words in My Hand by Guinevere Glasfurd]()
The Words in My Hand by Guinevere Glasfurd
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Words in My Hand is the re-imagined true story of Helena Jans, a Dutch maid in 17th-century Amsterdam, who works for Mr. Sergeant, the English bookseller. When a mysterious and reclusive lodger arrives - the Monsieur - Mr Sergeant insists everything must be just so. It transpires that the Monsieur is René Descartes...Categorized as:
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![Against a Crimson Sky by James Conroyd Martin]()
Against a Crimson Sky by James Conroyd Martin
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAlternate cover edition for 9781499273601 A magnificent epic, AGAINST A CRIMSON SKY is an unforgettable tale of love, valor, and the enduring strength of the human spirit, set against the backdrop of war-torn Poland at the cusp of the nineteenth century... -
![Confessions of Marie Antoinette by Juliet Grey]()
Confessions of Marie Antoinette by Juliet Grey
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsConfessions of Marie Antoinette, the riveting and sweeping final novel in Juliet Grey’s trilogy on the life of the legendary French queen, blends rich historical detail with searing drama, bringing to life the early years of the French Revolution and the doomed royal family’s final days. Versailles, 1789... -
![The Kiss of the Concubine: A story of Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII by Judith Arnopp]()
The Kiss of the Concubine: A story of Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII by Judith Arnopp
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratings28th January 1547.It is almost midnight and the cream of the English nobility hold their breath as King Henry VIII prepares to face his God. As the royal physicians wring their hands and Archbishop Cranmer gallops through the frigid night, two dispossessed princesses pray for their father’s soul and a boy, soon to be king, snivels into his velvet sleeve...Categorized as:
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![The Lady in the Tower by Marie-Louise Jensen]()
The Lady in the Tower by Marie-Louise Jensen
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSpring 1540. Eleanor's mother is imprisoned in the Lady Tower after a terrible accusation. For four years Eleanor's only comfort has been their secret notes to one another... -
![Queen Jezebel by Jean Plaidy]()
Queen Jezebel by Jean Plaidy
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe ageing Catherine de' Medici has arranged the marriage of her beautiful Catholic daughter Margot to the uncouth Huguenot King Henry of Navarre. Margot, still desperately in love with Henry de Guise, refuses to utter her vows. But even Catherine is unable to anticipate the carnage that this unholy union is to bring about.. -
![Prisoner of the Queen by E. Knight]()
Prisoner of the Queen by E. Knight
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsKindhearted Katherine Grey knows well the peril of being born with royal blood. As Henry VIII’s grandniece and one of the heirs to the English throne, her noble birth has doomed her to live among the schemers and seducers of the king’s court—barring her from the peaceful life that she truly desires... -
![The Shogun's Queen by Lesley Downer]()
The Shogun's Queen by Lesley Downer
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOnly one woman can save her world from barbarian invasion but to do so will mean sacrificing everything she holds dear -- love, loyalty and maybe life itself . . .Japan, and the year is 1853... -
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![The Enemies of Versailles by Sally Christie]()
The Enemies of Versailles by Sally Christie
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn the final installment of Sally Christie’s “tantalizing” (New York Daily News) Mistresses of Versailles trilogy, Jeanne Becu, a woman of astounding beauty but humble birth, works her way from the grimy back streets of Paris to the palace of Versailles, where the aging King Louis XV has become a jaded and bitter old philanderer...Categorized as:
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![Courting Her Highness by Jean Plaidy]()
Courting Her Highness by Jean Plaidy
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA private battle rages at court for the affections of a childless queen, who must soon name her successor—and thus determine the future of the British Empire. It is the beginning of the eighteenth century and William of Orange is dying. Soon Anne is crowned queen, but to court insiders, the name of the imminent sovereign is Sarah Churchill... -
![A Grand Man by Catherine Cookson]()
A Grand Man by Catherine Cookson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratings'Me da's a grand man!' Mary Ann Shaughnessy has spoken; question her who dare. For although Mary Ann may look quite an ordinary small girl from a dockland tenement, always hot in defense of a ne'er-do-well father, she is in fact a one-man army, armoured with faith and possessed of formidable qualities... -
![The Invisible Cord by Catherine Cookson]()
The Invisible Cord by Catherine Cookson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIt was a wartime white wedding but it was not a love match. Annie Cooper married George McCabe for one reason only: she was expecting his child. Her own parents accepted the situation with a kind of pained resignation. The easy-going McCabes, and especially George's rumbustious mother, just took it in their stride. But Annie was a girl of spirit and determined to make the marriage work... -
![Bill Bailey's Lot by Catherine Cookson]()
Bill Bailey's Lot by Catherine Cookson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBill Bailey, the rugged Liverpudlian, was now a fully-fledged Tyneside building contractor, as staunchly loyal to his squad of workmen as they were to him. He had also met and married Fiona, a young widow with her own loveable family, to which she and Bill shortly added with the adoption of the orphaned Mamie... -
![Sutton Place by Deryn Lake]()
Sutton Place by Deryn Lake
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe year is 1051. The beautiful and angry Queen Edith curses the ground her husband, Edward the Confessor, hunts on and all its future owners. Five centuries later, Richard Weston, a shrewd politician and rising member of Henry VIII’s court, is awarded the land and builds a magnificent manor house. But his family is living in the shadow of the curse and must soon pay its price...
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