The third book in Robin Maxwell's acclaimed Elizabethan Quartet and a
Los Angeles Times bestseller--called "Tense, absorbing, highly
entertaining" by Library Journal
Sexual obsession. Greed. Bitter sibling rivalry. Political ambition unto
death. These constitute Henry VIII's foul legacy, his wives and children
its victims. But none more able than the young Elizabeth, future Queen
of England.
Elizabeth, daughter of Henry and Anne Boleyn, banished from the court at
the age of two, finds an unlikely ally in her father's sixth wife,
Catherine Parr. A kindly woman with no children of her own, Catherine
offers motherly love to the young princess and her brother Edward, and
works to soften her father's heart and gain her readmittance to the
Tudor fold. But when Henry dies and a ten-year-old Edward is crowned
King of England, a new era of instability begins for the young and
suggestible monarch, and the sister he has left behind in Chelsea House.
It is becoming increasingly clear that Catherine's new husband, Sir
Thomas Seymour, has dangerous designs on the vulnerable teenage princess
in his charge, and on the power to which she is key.