Deborah Hopkinson

The trag­ic lives of Hen­ry VIII and his six wives are reimag­ined by sev­en acclaimed and best­selling authors in this riv­et­ing nov­el, per­fect for fans of Wolf Hall and Net­flix’s The Crown. 

He was King Hen­ry VIII, a charis­mat­ic and extrav­a­gant ruler obsessed with both his pow­er as king and with sir­ing a male heir.

They were his queens—six ill-fat­ed women, each bound for divorce, or behead­ing, or death.

Watch spell­bound as each of Hen­ry’s wives attempts to sur­vive their unpre­dictable king and his pow­er-hun­gry court. See the sword flash as fiery Anne Boleyn is behead­ed for adul­tery. Fol­low Jane Sey­mour as she ris­es from bul­lied court maid­en to beloved queen, only to die after giv­ing birth. Feel Cather­ine Howard’s ter­ror as old lovers resur­face and whis­per vicious rumors to Hen­ry’s influ­en­tial advi­sors. Expe­ri­ence the heartache of moth­ers as they lose son after son, heir after heir. 

Told in stir­ring first-per­son accounts, Fatal Throne is at once provoca­tive and heart­break­ing, an epic tale that is also an inti­mate look at the roy­al­ty of the most per­ilous times in Eng­lish history.

M.T. Ander­son, writ­ing as Hen­ry VIII
Can­dace Flem­ing, writ­ing as Katharine of Aragon
Stephanie Hemphill, writ­ing as Anne Boleyn
Lisa Ann Sandell, writ­ing as Jane Sey­mour
Jen­nifer Don­nel­ly, writ­ing as Anna of Cleves
Lin­da Sue Park, writ­ing as Cather­ine Howard
Deb­o­rah Hop­kin­son, writ­ing as Kateryn Parr