She now lives on a Christmas tree farm in Wilton, Maine, with her husband and three cats. She also taught at Tidewater Community College in Virginia Beach, Virginia. After graduating from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, she continued for graduate school at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. Her book How to Write Killer Historical Mysteries was nominated for two industry awards and won the 2008 Agatha Award for Best Non-Fiction.Įmerson was born and grew up in New York state. She also uses the pseudonyms Kaitlyn Dunnett and Kate Emerson.Įmerson writes historical mysteries as Kathy Lynn Emerson, historical fiction set in royal courts as Kate Emerson, and contemporary mystery books as Kaitlyn Dunnett. Kathy Lynn Emerson is an American writer of historical and mystery novels and non-fiction. ( April 2012) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unreliable citations may be challenged or deleted.

Please help this article by looking for better, more reliable sources. Can she cultivate her beauty and her amorous wiles to guide her along a perilous path and bring her at last to happiness?īasing 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.Some of this article's listed sources may not be reliable. 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. 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.

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