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Authors: Michelle Diener

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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Diener, Michelle.

Banquet of lies / Michelle Diener. — 1st Gallery Books trade paperback edition.

   p. cm.

1. Courts and courtiers—Fiction. 2. Great Britain—History—Henry VIII, 1509–1547—Fiction. I. Title. PR9619.4.D54B36 2013

823'.92—dc23

Designed by Jaime Putorti

Cover design by Laywan Kwan

Cover photograph © Margie Hurwich/Arcangel Images

ISBN 978-1-4516-8445-2

ISBN 978-1-4516-8446-9 (ebook)

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Chapter 28

Chapter 29

Chapter 30

Chapter 31

Chapter 32

Chapter 33

Chapter 34

Chapter 35

Chapter 36

Author’s Note

Readers Group Guide

Topics and Questions for Discussion

Enhance Your Book Club

About Curtis Bunn

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