Anne Easter Smith

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Anne Easter Smith
 
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Winner of the Romantic TImes Magazine's Best Historical Biography award in 2009 for The King's Grace.

Anne’s four novels bring vividly to life the story of the York family in the 15th century.  Meticulous historical research, rich period detail, and compelling female protagonists combine to provide the reader with a sweeping portrait of England in the time of the Wars of the Roses. The books “grab you, sweep you along with the story, and make you fall in love with the characters ...” (
Historical Novels Review
The Kings Grace Each book is complete on its own and yet together they give an in-depth look at one of the two families whose viable claim to the throne threw England into civil war. Beginning with Cecily Neville, the matriarch of the House of York (Queen By Right), who had thirteen children, including Edward IV, Richard III (A Rose for the Crown) and Margaret, duchess of Burgundy (Daughter of York), and ending with the tragic story of Perkin Warbeck (The King’s Grace) that ended the Plantagenet dynasty and made way for the Tudors, Anne has woven fact and fiction seamlessly to create this best-selling series.