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Thomas Dunne Books
February 2014
On Sale: January 21, 2014
Featuring: Jeffrey Hudson; King Charles I; Henrietta
384 pages
ISBN: 1250006295
EAN: 9781250006295
Kindle: B00FO9R8N4
Hardcover / e-Book
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Historical | Women's Fiction Historical
A richly imagined, gorgeously written historical novel set
in the Stuart court featuring a unique hero: Jeffrey Hudson,
a dwarf tasked with spying on the beautiful but vulnerable
queen. It's 1629, and King Charles I and his French queen Henrietta
Maria have reigned in England for less than three years.
Young dwarf Jeffrey Hudson is swept away from a village
shambles and plunged into the Stuart court when his father
sells him to the most hated man in England-the Duke of
Buckingham. Buckingham trains Jeffrey to be his spy in the
household of Charles' seventeen-year-old bride, hoping to
gain intelligence that will help him undermine the vivacious
queen's influence with the king. Desperately homesick in a country that hates her for her
nationality and Catholic faith, Henrietta Maria surrounds
herself with her "Royal Menagerie of Freaks and Curiosities
of Nature" a "collection" consisting of a giant, two other
dwarves, a rope dancer, an acrobat/animal trainer and now
Jeffrey, who is dubbed "Lord Minimus." Dropped into this family of misfits, Jeffrey must negotiate
a labyrinth of court intrigue and his own increasingly
divided loyalties. For not even the plotting of the Duke nor
the dangers of a tumultuous kingdom can order the heart of a
man. Though he is only eighteen inches tall, Jeffrey
Hudson's love will reach far beyond his grasp-to the queen
he has been sent to destroy.
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