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Hello again my friends,
 
It is difficult for me to believe that I am actually seeing my 12th novel, The Queen’s Rival, published---and in this world where books, and publishing in general, are changing so swiftly, still, here it is; loved, cared for, fussed over, and now set out to you all as once again I hold my breath and hope you like it. I am beyond blessed about it, and so enormously proud of the result of another year’s worth of work and worry. This has been such a wonderful, long journey which so many of you who have graciously taken with me over this past twenty years, contacting me here, as well as through Facebook, with so much encouragement and lovely words of inspiration. You truly are the difference that keeps me writing and always looking for new incredible stories from history to bring to you. It seems only a blink ago that I was able to tell you the sweeping, true story of Diane de Poitiers, in Courtesan , then so many other incredible stories, based on true love affairs from history. And now we delve into the wonderfully complex Bess Blount in The Queen's Rival. Her story, my third In The Court of Henry VIII series, is based on the true, not often told story of the mother of Henry VIII’s only acknowledged natural son. Bess’s inspiring tale is one of a naïve young woman's coming of age amid the powerful English court, with all of its players, as mistress to the King --- and companion to his Queen. Through the years, Bess triumphs and survives, finding not only herself through the challenges, heartbreaks and hurdles, but also the balancing act she must live every day to survive. There she finds the two great enduring romances of her life there…

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