"Learn you to die," was the advice Lady Jane Grey wrote to her younger sister Katherine, who has no intention of dying. When Katherine's pregnancy betrays her secret marriage, she faces imprisonment in the Tower. "Farewell, my sister," writes Katherine to the youngest Grey sister, Mary.

A beautiful dwarf, disregarded by the court, Mary keeps family secrets, especially her own. After seeing her sisters defy their queens, Mary is acutely aware of her own danger but determined to command her own life. What will happen when the last Tudor defies her ruthless and unforgiving Queen Elizabeth?