The Chalice: A Novel (Joanna Stafford series) Aristocrat-turned-novice Joanna Stafford knows what lies inside the king’s torture rooms and risks imprisonment when she is caught up in an international plot targeting the king.BETWEEN THE
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| Title | : | The Chalice: A Novel (Joanna Stafford series) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.94 (807 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1476708665 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 512 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-18 |
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What would you sacrifice to protect your way of life? In the sixteenth century, a young nun risks everything to defy the most powerful authorities, fulfill a prophecy, and preserve the future of Christendom.BETWEEN THE CROWN AND THE CROSS STANDS ONE WOMANIN 1538, ENGLAND is in the midst of bloody power struggles that threaten to tear the country apart. Aristocrat-turned-novice Joanna Stafford knows what lies inside the king’s torture rooms and risks imprisonment when she is caught up in an 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.Joanna realizes the life of Henry VIII, as well as the future of Christendom, are in her hands—hands that must someday hold the chalice that lies at the center of these deadly prophecies.
Editorial : From Booklist Henry VIII has defrocked the priesthood and despoiled the Church’s convents and monasteries, though he has not killed its spirit in this sequel to The Crown (2012), continuing the story of Joanna Stafford, former nun and sometime spy, whose destiny is uncomfortably tied both to prophecy and the Tudors. Lovely Joanna’s naïvete, her budding sexuality, and her inner turmoil, combined with the overwhelming greed of powerful religious and political men, again obscures her vision. Three indecipherable prophecies eventually propel her toward rebellion, and while these omens form the weakest part of the story, Joanna emerges as a compelling character who someow manages to weather a fierce emotional battering and the threat of execution. Presenting his narrative through the eyes of a young woman who eventually must accept the “cup” of her fate, Bilyeau paints a moving portrait of Catholicism during the Reformation and of reclusive, spiritual people adj
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