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Title: The Chalice
Author: Nancy Bilyeau
Narrator: Nicola Barber
Format: Unabridged
Length: 14 hrs and 49 mins
Language: English
Release date: 04-01-13
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 59 votes
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
In the next novel from Nancy Bilyeau after her acclaimed debut The Crown, novitiate Joanna Stafford plunges into an even more dangerous conspiracy as she comes up against some of the most powerful men of her era.
In 1538, England is in the midst of bloody power struggles between crown and cross that threaten to tear the country apart. Joanna Stafford has seen what lies inside the kings torture rooms and risks imprisonment again when she is caught up in a shadowy international plot targeting the king. As the power plays turn vicious, Joanna understands she may have to assume her role in a prophecy foretold by three different seers, each more omniscient than the last.
Joanna realizes the life of Henry VIII as well as the future of Christendom are in her handshands that must someday hold the chalice that lays at the center of these deadly prophecies.
Critic Reviews:
Rarely have the terrors of Henry VIIIs reformation been so exciting. Court intrigue, bloody executions, and haunting emotional entanglements create a heady brew of mystery and adventure that sweeps us from the devastation of the ransacked cloisters to the dangerous spy centers of London and the Low Countries, as ex-novice Joanna Stafford fights to save her way of life and fulfill an ancient prophecy, before everything she loves is destroyed. (C. W. Gortner, author of The Queens Vow)
Superbly set in the political and religious turmoil between Henry VIIIs queens Jane Seymour and Anne of Cleves, The Chalice is a dark, twisty thriller that I couldnt put down. Nancy Bilyeaus extensive historical research makes the sense of dread, danger, and mysticism permeating this era tangible. Ex-Dominican novice Joanna Stafford is an especially compelling and sympathetic heroineI adored her! (Kris Waldherr, author of Doomed Queens)
[A] layered book of historical suspense. (Kirkus Reviews)
