Mistress Cromwell The Woman In The Shadows

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When beautiful cloth merchant's daughter Elizabeth Williams is widowed at the age of twenty-two she is determined to make a success of the business she inherited from her father. But there are those who oppose a woman making her own way in the world and soon Elizabeth realises she may have some powerful enemies - enemies who know the dark truth about her dead husband. Happiness arrives when Elizabeth meets ambitious young lawyer Thomas Cromwell. Their marriage begins in mutual love and respect - but it isn't always easy being the wife of an independent headstrong man in Henry VIII's London. The city is both merciless and filled with temptation and Elizabeth soon realises she must take care in the life she has chosen . . . or risk losing everything.