The eleventh enthralling adventure to feature Ursula Blanchard,
reluctant spy in the service of Queen Elizabeth I
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 he fears may once again be plotting to put Mary
Queen of Scots on the English throne. But Ursula is also about to come
face-to-face with her greatest enemy - and the exiled Countess of
Northumberland is not the only figure from Ursula's past to put in a
surprising appearance.