From The Historical Novel Society Review:
An “Editors’ Choice”

“In this sequel to the gripping The Rose of York: Love and War, Worth does a beautiful, and succinct, job of retelling the well-worn but no less horrific story of Edward IV’s fall from glory. Here, Worth focuses primarily on the temporarily successful manipulation of the entire Woodville clan to wrest power away from the Plantagenets and the ultimate succession of Richard III to the throne.
     Worth does justice to the story. While dosing it heavily with historical fact, she makes it absolutely pulse with human emotion. The Woodvilles are gruesome and hateful people. Richard and Anne, tied from childhood in a bond that knows no bounds of time or space, find each other again after being torn apart by political expedience and pure nastiness . . .
     Crown of Destiny, for all its brevity, is a deep and gripping read. Although it is not necessary to read Love and War beforehand, I feel that it gave me an opportunity to familiarize myself with Worth’s style and to immerse myself immediately into the story.

     The final installment in this series, Fall from Grace, is due out later this year. I’m going to grab that one as soon as I can.”

 ~  Ilysa Magnus

“A masterpiece.”  ~   Dale Summers for The Ricardian Register, quarterly journal of the Richard III Society.

“The Rose of York: Crown of Destiny continues a story that speaks to the core of human existence. Depicted through magical and skillful prose and drawn with great passion and insight, Worth's Richard III is the Richard no reader can ever forget.”

 ~  Wendy Dunn, author of Dear Heart, How Like You This ? and winner of the 2003 Glyph Award for Best General Fiction

“I have never read another novelist who shows such a convincing feel for Richard III. She makes a point of not saying anything contrary to the historical record, of which she has an encyclopedic knowledge. Crown of Destiny has more politics than the first novel of this trilogy, Love & War, my Favorite Romance Read of 2003. Even though I know what will happen in the final novel, Fall from Grace...  I look forward to it with sympathetic trepidation. All three are multiple award winners.”

 ~  Joy Calderwood,  Reviewers Choice Reviews

“A Perfect Ten” ~   Jani Brooks,  Romance Reviews Today

“Sandra Worth knows how to write superb historical fiction! The reader comes to appreciate the depth of Richard's character in taut suspense through the spare yet plot-driven tale quickly emerging under Worth's deft, depictive skills... Congratulations, Sandra Worth! You have done it again with realistic and creative skill - and so much more! I can't wait to read the final novel in this noteworthy series, The Rose of York:  Fall From Grace.”

 ~   Reviewed by Viviane Crystal,  Crystal Reviews,  September 4, 2006