Kirjahaku

She was one of the most fascinating women of her generation; intelligent, clever and alluring. But despite all of her undoubted talents, her fate was sealed from the moment Henry VIII set eyes on her.Anne Boleyn deserves to be remembered as so much more than just the Queen who lost her head. She was a woman of immense personal charm who lived during one of the most colourful, exciting and brutal eras of English history. Often stubborn and impulsive, Anne was a rebellious daughter, a loving and critical sister, a loyal friend and a dangerous enemy. This is her story, from her childhood at Hever Castle through to her relationship with the King who desired and ultimately destroyed her.

Vyvyan's Vicarage is a place where the life forces of the past exert a terrible influence over those of the present. It sits empty and waiting - waiting for a new family to step into the tangled web of its tragic past.Viv and Pete Parsons, uncomfortably crammed into a tiny house with their two daughters, are overjoyed when they manage to find the ideal home. The vicarage seems to have everything their growing family needs; it is spacious, affordable and well appointed.However, shortly after moving in, strange unexplainable things start to happen. Looking back into the past for an explanation, Viv attempts to piece together the lives of the previous occupants of the house and finds disturbing similarities between her own family and the last family to occupy the house as a home. Slowly but surely the echoes of the past reach out to overwhelm Viv's family as she fights desperately to save them all from oblivion.

Charlotte Parsons knew that the tragic events which unfolded at Vyvyan's Vicarage would continue to haunt her for the rest of her life unless she faced up to her fears and her loss.When the chance of a job brings her once again to the village of Purseley, she discovers that the urge to find out what happened to her parents and sister far outweighs her reluctance to return to live there. Against the wishes of her surviving family she accepts the new job but soon finds that the dark forces which haunt the vicarage are only too eager to resume the vendetta.She is torn between her loyalties to the two boys she is employed to look after and her own desire for self-preservation but knows that she can never rest until she knows the truth. With the aid of her dead mother's diary and research notes, she determinedly sets out to uncover just why she is being targeted and battles desperately to bring peace to the house and its inhabitants, both living and dead.

History has always portrayed Jane Seymour as a shadowy, meek and obedient woman whose only effect on the troubled and dangerous world in which she lived was to quietly provide Henry VIII with his dearest wish and then obligingly fade away.How did she, a woman with seemingly no personality and with few accomplishments beyond needlework and household management contrive to not only attract the world's most fearsome and powerful monarch, but also motivate him to rid himself of Anne Boleyn, the woman for whom he had sacrificed so much to marry only three short years before?Although she is given little credit for anything other than her provision of England's heir, Jane Seymour was astute, intelligent and came from a highly ambitious family. She was as aspirational as her brothers and craved the power and influence which could only be attained as the wife of England's most powerful man. The fact that he already had a Queen did not deter her; she was focused, she was ruthless and she would let nothing stand in her way.This is the story of Jane Seymour and her rise from obscure country gentlewoman to royal consort.