Henry VIII's nine-year-old son struggles to rule in the wake of ruthless men rich from the plunder of the Church and hungry for supremacy. Waiting in the wings is a banished Catholic spinster, the formidable and passionate Mary Tudor, who is doomed to be succeeded by the ferocious guile of Princess Elizabeth. Heirs of Squire Harry is a powerful, romantic, historical novel as Jane Lane tells a gripping story of political intrigue around the shadowy machinations of a volatile monarchy.