Sometimes it is better to play the role you desire than the role you are given.
Pocket
January 2011
On Sale: January 18, 2011
Featuring: Rosamund; Will Creighton
464 pages ISBN: 1451613024 EAN: 9781451613025 Mass Market Paperback (reprint) 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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