Pocket Books
April 2010
On Sale: April 13, 2010
Featuring: Rosamund; Will Creighton
384 pages ISBN: 1416525548 EAN: 9781416525547 Trade Size Add to Wish List
At Queen Elizabeth’s palace, intrigue abounds. And when a
naive girl with a gift for keen observation enters the
court, she can hardly imagine the role she will play in
bringing England—indeed, the whole of Europe—to the brink
of war. Nor can she foresee her own journey to the brink
of ecstasy and beyond. . . .
When she becomes a
junior lady of Queen Elizabeth’s bedchamber, Rosamund is
instructed by her cousin, the brilliant and devious
secretary of state Sir Francis Walsingham, to record
everything she observes. Her promised reward: a chance at
a good marriage. But through her brother Thomas, Rosamund
finds herself drawn to the forbidden, rough-and-tumble
world of theatre, and to Thomas’s friend, the dramatic,
impetuous playwright Christopher Marlowe. And then
Rosamund meets Will Creighton—a persuasive courtier, poet,
and would-be playwright who is the embodiment of an
unsuitable match.
The unsanctioned
relationship between Rosamund and Will draws the wrath of
Elizabeth, who prides herself on being the Virgin Queen.
Rosamund is sent in disgrace to a remote castle that holds
Elizabeth’s cousin Mary Stuart, the imprisoned Queen of
Scots. Here, Walsingham expects Rosamund to uncover proof
of a plot against Elizabeth. But surely, nothing good can
come of putting an artless girl in such close proximity to
so many seductive players and deceptive games. Unless, of
course, Rosamund can discover an affinity for passion and
intrigue herself. . . .
New York Times
and USA Today bestselling author Jane Feather
conspires with history to tell this dazzling story about
two very real, very wily queens— and one impassioned young
woman whose life they change forever.
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