Songbird

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>She came from nothing. One false note could send her back.</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Ten-year-old Bess is only good at one thing-singing which has no place in her family's bleak existence. When her father sells her to the king of England she balances the loss of all she's known against a world of music and plenty and builds a new life as a royal minstrel earning the nickname the king's songbird.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Bess comes of age in the dangerous Tudor court where the stakes are always high and where politics heartbreak and disease threaten everyone from the king to the lowliest musician.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Her life has one constant: Tom her first and dearest friend. But when Bess intrigues with a young Anne Boleyn and strains against the restrictions of her life in the shadows will she discover that the biggest risk of all is listening to her own stubborn heart?</span></p>