It is May 1560. As sinister storm clouds gather overhead, 26-year-old
Queen Elizabeth dispatches William Cecil, her most trusted adviser, to
Scotland for crucial negotiations. Handsome, ambitious Lord Robert
Dudley is at her side. But their leisurely midsummer idyll is cut short
when the courts master lutenist plunges to his death from a parapet
beneath the queen's window. The loyal retainers of Elizabeth's privy
council do not accept the official verdict of accidental death. Their
fears are borne out when another tragedy rocks the realm, and points the
way to a conspiracy to bring down Elizabeth and seize the throne. As ill
winds of treachery swirl around the court, and suspicion falls on those
within Elizabeth's intimate circle, a vengeful enemy slips from the
shadows...a traitorous usurper who would be sovereign.
With The Twylight Tower, Karen Harper brings a legendary era to life,
drawing us into an intoxicating world of majesty and mayhem, political
intrigue and adventure...where danger is everywhere...and where a young
queen journeys to greatness in the long shadow of her bloodstained past.