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The first in a vibrant new series of young adult novels set in the court of Henry VIII, Girl in a Diamond Collar is juicy and drama-filled Gossip Girl in the Tudor Court!

In the court of Henry VIII, ambition and power are everything and young Catherine Howard has plenty of both - not to mention a loyal best friend and confidante to cover her tracks. Cat Howard and Kitty Tilney are thrown together as part of a group of protégées, growing up under the care (though none too watchful eye) of the Dowager Duchess of Norfolk. Amid this group of girls, Cat Howard is the reigning queen, young but hardly innocent, and Kitty Tilney is her best friend, the abandoned youngest daughter of minor aristocracy who owes every-thing to Cat: friend, flirt and the Queen of Misrule. But when Cat marries the king at the young age of sixteen, Kitty is thrown into the chaos of life in the Tudor Court and she must learn the difference between trust and loyalty, love and lust, and secrets and treason before it's too late. Katy Longshore grew up in a small community behind the "Redwood Curtain" on the north-ern California coast. She earned a B.A. in Third World Studies and Communications from Humboldt State University, planning to travel and write. Forever. Four years, six continents and countless pairs of shoes later, she went to England for two weeks, stayed five years and discovered history. She lives in California. Girl in a Diamond Collar is the first in a 3-book deal with Viking.