St Thomas's Eve - Tudor Saga, Bk 6 Author:Eleanor Alice Burford Hibbert (Writing as Jean Plaidy) Jean Plaidy's robust historical novels of Tudor England, and in particular of the turbulent court of King Henry VIII, have enthralled readers for nearly twenty years. — St. Thomas's Eve is a beautifully conceived story of Sir Thomas More-scholar, Chancellor of England, man of integrity -- who was snatched from the peaceful life of his family home... more » in Chelsea, to die on the scaffold as the price of his opposition to the wild desires of his King.
No one dared refuse the friendship of the king. Especially a king like Henry. But neither friendship, nor fame, nor fortune, nor fear of the executioner's ax could corrupt the honor of a man like Sir Thomas Moore. When Henry's consuming passion to make Anne Boleyn his Queen became the storm center of a scandal that shook all England, Sir Thomas stood firm in his defiance of his king.« less