The May Bride

When Katherine Filliol walks through the doorway to Wolf Hall in 1536, Jane Seymour falls quickly under her spell. In her new sister-in-law, wife to Jane's eldest brother, Edward, Jane finds a free-spirited, unconventional woman with whom to bond. For one glorious summer, Jane and Katherine are inseparable, giving Jane a view into the world of matrimony. After a return from fighting in France, however, Edward announces his finding of Katherine's infidelity—with his father nonetheless—and Katherine is suddenly off to a nunnery, never to be heard from again. Jane must reconcile this loss with the tumult and notoriety it gives her family and, years later, manage herself when another Katherine, the Queen, finds her position as wife under threat from King Henry VIII, who wishes to divorce her and marry Anne Boleyn.