This book had a good story-line and plot. There was hardly any sex in this one at all and the scenes included were very short and left much for you to fill in for yourself. I also thought it was going to deal with 'the tudors', as in the encore show, as in Anne Boelyn and Jane Seymour, etc.

I was afraid it would be all sex and no story. I thought it was going to be littered with erotica. When I bought this I was afraid of it I was scared of what the title 'The Pleasure Palace' would infer into this book. But the Tudor court is filled with dangers as well as seductions, and there are mysteries surrounding Jane's birth that have made her deadly enemies.Ĭan she cultivate her beauty and her amorous wiles to guide her along a perilous path and bring her at last to happiness? Basing her gripping tale on the life of the real Jane Popyncourt, gifted author Kate Emerson brings the Tudor monarchs, their family, and their courtiers to brilliant life in this vibrant new novel. Then a dashing French prisoner of war, cousin to the king of France, is brought to London, and Jane finds she cannot help giving some of her heart - and more - to a man she can never marry. But as she grows into a lovely young woman, she still receives flattering attention from the virile young men flocking to serve the handsome new king, Henry VIII, who has recently married Catherine of Aragon. With no money of her own, Jane could not hope for a powerful marriage, or perhaps even marriage at all.

Jane Popyncourt was brought to the court as a child to be ward of the king and a companion to his daughters - the princesses Margaret and Mary.

The Pleasure Palace by Kate Emerson