3 copy giveaway: The King's Daughter by Christie Dickason

Thanks to a kind people at HarperCollins, Passages to a Past has 3 copies of a brand new novel by Christie Dickason, The King's Daughter, that will be released upon Nov 23, 2010.
SYNOPSIS: The daughter of James I, a Princess Elizabeth would not be merely her father's guaranty in a stately matrimony market. The justice of James I is a dangerous place, with factions led by ready to fight cousins Robert Cecil as well as Francis Bacon. While Europe seethes with conflict in between Protestants as well as Catholics, James sees himself as a grand peacemakerand wants to have his mark by trade his young kids for political treaties.
Henry, Prince of Wales, as well as his sister, Elizabeth, find themselves far more renouned than their distrusted father, a perilous position for a child of a sceptical king. When Elizabeth is introduced to a single suitor, Frederick, a Elector Palatine, she feels a astonishing possibility of happiness. But her predestine is not her own to chooseand when her relatives brutally withdraw their support for a union, Elizabeth contingency take authority of her own future, with a assistance of an astonishing ally, a slave girl Tallie, who seeks her own, really opposite freedom.
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