Alternate Tudor History
For readers who want the “what if” without cheating on historic traditions and laws. The series is based on one divergence — Catherine of Aragon lives and Henry VIII is taken off the throne — while everything else holds exactly as it was.
Anne Boleyn, Countess of Northumberland
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The Series
Alternate Tudor HistoryThe Tudor Era is alternate Tudor history for readers who want the “what if” without cheating on historic traditions and laws. Every book turns on a single divergence — Catherine of Aragon lives — and then holds to the politics, faith and law of sixteenth-century England as they actually worked. Henry VIII still unravels. The abbeys still fall, and someone still has to count which half came back. The people are the ones history records, the rules are the ones they lived under, and nothing is bent to make the story easier.
The story runs from the King’s great matter through the Reformation and into the trouble it makes in the north. Each book stands on its own, and they are best read in order.
The Books
Book One
Divorced, Not Dead (This Time)
Catherine of Aragon wakes nine years before her own death with the memory of it intact. Henry’s grief for the sons he could not keep has curdled into something the whole court mistakes for policy, and only Catherine sees it for what it is. What she and Anne Boleyn build over the next nine years, in whispers and threads and messages no man thinks to read, is treason. It is also the only thing that can stop a mad king before he breaks the realm a second time.
Book Two
Anne Boleyn, Countess of Northumberland
It is 1536. Henry VIII is locked in the Tower, Catherine of Aragon governs England, and Anne Boleyn — thirty-five and notorious and for the first time in her life nobody of importance at all — rides a hundred and eighty miles north to marry the man who was taken from her fourteen years ago. Yorkshire does not want a southern reformer in a Catholic county that is still counting its abbeys. She has no court, no king and no faction. Just a house, a name nobody trusts, an ill husband, and two hundred and forty armed men at the gate with a demand she has no power to grant.
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What to Expect
Clean historical fiction with no explicit content. A Tudor court rendered in candlelight and dread. Women who scheme with the only tools they were ever given: marriages, letters, needlework, gossip, patronage and the law.
For anyone who has read everything there is about Henry VIII and his six wives, Anne Boleyn, Catherine of Aragon, Mary Tudor and Elizabeth I, and still wants one more turn through those rooms.
What is The Tudor Era series?
The Tudor Era is a series of alternate Tudor history novels by Victoria Hawkins. Every book turns on a single divergence — Catherine of Aragon lives — and then holds to the politics, faith and law of sixteenth-century England as they actually worked. Nothing is bent to make the story easier.
Do the books need to be read in order?
Each book stands on its own, but they are best read in order. The story runs from the King’s great matter through the Reformation and into the trouble it makes in the north.
Is there explicit content in the books?
No. The Tudor Era is clean historical fiction with no explicit content — a Tudor court rendered in candlelight and dread, where women scheme with the tools they were given: marriages, letters, needlework, gossip, patronage and the law.
Who is the series for?
For anyone who has read everything there is about Henry VIII and his six wives, Anne Boleyn, Catherine of Aragon, Mary Tudor and Elizabeth I, and still wants one more turn through those rooms.
What is the first book about?
In Divorced, Not Dead (This Time), Catherine of Aragon wakes nine years before her own death with the memory of it intact, and reaches across a sewing circle to Anne Boleyn — the woman she is supposed to hate most — to build a nine-year conspiracy that can stop a mad king before he breaks the realm a second time.
In January 1536, Catherine of Aragon dies alone in a cold room, discarded by the king who broke England away from Rome to be rid of her, branded their daughter a bastard, and moved his cast-off queen from one cold house to a colder one until her heart gave out.
Then she opens her eyes, and it is 1527 again.
Nine years have been handed back to her, and she remembers every step that led to her grave. The law will not save her. She already tried the law, and it killed her. So she does the one thing history swears she never would: she reaches across a crowded sewing circle for the woman she is supposed to hate most in all the world. And Anne Boleyn reaches back.
She died once already. This time, she remembers everything.
Everyone knows how this story ends.
They’re wrong.