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5) Martyr
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Rory Clements's Revenger.
A young woman is found murdered, her body marked with profane symbols. Even more shocking, she's one of Queen Elizabeth's aristocratic cousins. Is there a connection between this tragedy and a plot to assassinate Sir Francis Drake--a plot that, if successful, could leave England defenseless in the face of a Spanish invasion?
Enter John Shakespeare, Tudor
In the autumn of 1558, church bells across England ring out the joyous news that Elizabeth I is the new queen, yet one woman hears the tidings with utter dread....
“An extraordinary piece of historical scholarship.”—The Cleveland Plain Dealer
Perhaps the most influential sovereign England has ever known, Queen Elizabeth I remained an extremely private person throughout her reign, keeping...
11) Silent court
However, travelling in disguise as part of a troupe of Egyptian players, Marlowe encounters trouble at the home of Dr John...
12) Witch hammer
13) Queen's bounty
Ursula Blanchard is rudely shaken on receipt of a threatening letter from the exiled Anne Percy, Countess of Northumberland, whose treasonous plot against Elizabeth I Ursula helped foil a few months previously.
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February, 1571. Ursula is once more plunged into affairs of the state when she escorts her foster daughter Margaret to the Netherlands to meet her suitor. The queen's spymaster, Sir William Cecil, learns that the wealthy Italian banker Roberto Ridolfi will be hosting their forthcoming wedding – a man who...
15) The wild Irish
Two female titans — perfectly matched in guts, guile, and political genius.
Elizabeth, queen of England, has taken on the mighty Spanish Armada and, in a stunning sea battle, vanquished it. But her troubles are far from over. Just across the western channel, her colony Ireland is embroiled in seething rebellion, with the island's fierce, untamed clan chieftains and their "wild Irish" followers refusing to bow to their English oppressors.
Grace
...20) Bacon
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