The dramatic untold story of the three tragic Grey sisters, all heirs to the Tudor throne, all victims to their royal blood. Lady Jane Grey is an icon of innocence abused. Remembered as the ΓÇÿNine Days QueenΓÇÖ, she has been mythologized as a child-woman sacrificed to political expedience. But behind the legend lay a rebellious adolescent who became a leader, and no mere victim. Growing up in her shadow, JaneΓÇÖs sisters Katherine and Mary would have to tread carefully to survive. The dramatic lives of the younger Grey sisters remain little known, but both women became heirs and rivals to the Tudor monarchs, Mary and Elizabeth I. To gain Queen MaryΓÇÖs trust, teenaged Katherine ignored JaneΓÇÖs final request not to change her religion, only to risk her life with a marriage that threatened Queen ElizabethΓÇÖs throne. While KatherineΓÇÖs friends fought to save her, the youngest Grey sister, Mary, stayed at court. Though too poor and plain to be significant, she looked set to escape the burden of her royal blood. But then she too fell in love and incurred the QueenΓÇÖs fury. Exploding the many myths of Lady JaneΓÇÖs life, and casting fresh light onto ElizabethΓÇÖs reign, acclaimed historian Leanda de Lisle brings the Grey sistersΓÇÖ tumultuous world to life: at a time when a royal marriage could gain you a kingdom, or cost you everything.