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Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Teaser Tuesday: The Queen's Rivals by Brandy Purdy

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

"Shut up, Jane, and do as the Duke says! You stupid girl, by the way you're behaving, anyone would think you were being forced into the tooth-drawer's chair instead of being honored with a throne!"
~pg. 164 The Queen's Rival ARC


Their ambitions were ordinary, but they were born too close to the throne...

As cousins of history's most tempestuous queens, Ladies Jane, Katherine, and Mary Grey were born in an age when all of London lived beneath the Tower's menacing shadow. Tyrannized by Bloody Mary and the Virgin Queen, the sisters feared love was unthinkable —and the scaffold all but unavoidable...

Raised to fear her royal blood and what it might lead men to do in her name, Mary Grey dreads what will become of herself and her elder sisters under the reigns of Mary Tudor and Elizabeth I. On their honor, they have no designs on the crown, yet are condemned to solitude, forbidden to wed. Though Mary, accustomed to dwelling in the shadows, the subject of whispers, may never catch the eye of a gentleman, her beautiful and brilliant sisters long for freedoms that would surely cost their lives. And so, wizened for her years, Mary can only hope for divine providence amid a bleak present and a future at the whim of the throne — unless destiny gains the upper hand.


3 comments:

Sandra Nachlinger said...

Interesting twist on history. I think I'd enjoy this story.
My Teaser is from MILLSTONE.

BooksToTheTea said...

Ohhh I love the drama!! Great tease =) New bloglovin follower =)
Here's my TT
http://bookstothetea.blogspot.com/

fredamans said...

Interesting term for a dentist... lol

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