'I could not fathom they were going to kill the queen. Nor could I bear to witness Anne Boleyn's beheading...'As a favour to a doomed queen, Kat Ashley agrees to become governess and confidante to the young Elizabeth Tudor. Together they suffer bitter exile, assassination attempts, and imprisonment, barely escaping with their reputations and their lives intact. But when Elizabeth is eventually crowned, Kat continues to serve her, faithfully guarding all of the queen's secrets, even the one that could bring down the monarchy...

Queen's Governess

Karen Harper

Ebury

England, 1601. When Queen Elizabeth's men come looking for William Shakespeare - a rumoured Catholic in a time of Catholic-Protestant intrigue and insurrection - they first question a beautiful, dark-haired woman who seems to know the famous playwright very well. Too well. She is Anne Whateley, born in Temple Grafton, a small town just up the river from Shakespeare's hometown of Stratford-upon-Avon. And as church records show - were anyone to look for them - Anne Whateley was wed to William Shakespeare in a small country church just days before he married another woman, Anne Hathaway, who has lived as his wife for decades. In SHAKESPEARE'S MISTRESS, Anne Whateley - who may or may not be Will's true wife - tells her story. Stretching almost fifty years, from the rural villages of Warwickshire to the bustling city of London, with its teeming streets and lively theatres, it's a story of undying passion, for life, love, and literature.

Shakespeare's Mistress

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

The Hooded Hawke (Elizabeth I Mysteries, Book 9)

The popular sports and games of the queen's realm, unfortunately, include treachery, treason, and murder. Elizabeth and her court depart London for a summer progress replete with great manor houses, rural receptions, outdoor repasts, forbidden romance, and games and sport. By royal command, the young Francis Drake joins the entourage. A ship's captain in his pre-glory days, he is desperate for Her Majesty's approval, and she is disconcerted to discover that she desires his admiration as well. However, someone's idea of games and sport includes shooting crossbows and longbows at the queen and her captain. As bodies and clues pile up, the mystery and dangers deepen like the surrounding forests. Both Drake and the queen have cousins they cannot trust who may want them dead. Elizabeth struggles to keep up a bold front for the cheering crowds and her watchful courtiers, but what terrifies her most is that her rival, Mary Queen of Scots, does not play by the rules. With Elizabeth's coterie of friends, Elizabeth must fearlessly confront her foes before she loses both her crown and her head.

British & Irish

Minotaur Books

Smitten with spring fever, Elizabeth Tudor escapes London for fantastical Nonsuch Palace in the sweet Surrey countryside. There she hopes to relax and pose for the official royal portrait for which she is holding a competition. But one of her artists is burned to death, and portraits of the queen are going up in flames. When she hears that her rival, the dangerous Mary, Queen of Scots, has been peering in mirrors and announcing, "I see the next queen of England!" Elizabeth summons her Privy Plot Council. Has the arsonist been sent by foreign foes or is it someone in her own court? Or is the "running boy" apparition really a ghost out to avenge a terrible past tragedy caused by the Tudors? Time is running out, because the enemy who stalks the queen means to destroy not only her portraits and artists, but her very life.

The Fyre Mirror (Elizabeth I Mysteries, Book 7)

St. Martin's Minotaur

On the eve of the Revolutionary War, one woman is about to betray her own heart by falling in love with her sworn enemy. Journalist Libby Morgan uses her newspaper to fan the flames of revolt against England. Cameron Gant, New York aristocrat, tory and secret spy, is the prime target of her rhetoric. Sworn enemies by their divided loyalties, they are drawn into a passion that does not recognize sides. Soon they are risking their lives and their love in a daring masquerade that could end in liberty--or death.

Liberty'S Lady

Romance

Caryn Cameron

Paranormal

HARLEQUIN)

The spirit of independence blazed in Merry Morgan's breast, so one glance from Darcy Mont's smoldering eyes was enough to sweep her into a perilous mission in British-held Philadelphia. A cool head was vital for her role, and her mounting passion for this stranger a liability. How could she hope to survive when heart and body both betrayed her? Darcy knew they faced death if the British caught them. And since past experience had taught him how little women were to be trusted, he dared not believe Merry the exception. Could he give his heart to her when she already held his life in her hands?

Freedom Flame

Historical

Five short romances follow themes of new beginnings and springtime renewal with the works of Mary Balogh, Karen Harper, Patricia Oliver, Margaret Evans Porter, and Patricia Rice. Original.

Blossoms

Patricia Rice

Patricia Oliver

Margaret Evans Porter

MARY BALOGH

United States

Signet

Stone County, Indiana -- a stunning landscape of rock quarries, caves and underground rivers -- is a place of unique beauty . . . and a place marked by an unsolved tragedy. One warm night sixteen years ago, sisters Jenna and Amanda Kirk disappeared. Days later, Jenna was found wandering alone, with no memory of what happened . . . and no knowledge of her sister's fate.While the girls' mother spun the tragedy into political victory by becoming the state's first female lieutenant governor, Jenna became overwhelmed by nightmares and guilt. Now, desperate to uncover the truth about what happened that night, Jenna returns to Stone County. But the family's Victorian home seems more of a haunting ground than a haven as Jenna begins to suspect someone is trying to frighten her away.To hurt her. And as memories begin to surface, Jenna is gripped by a growing fear about the place and about the people closest to her. Because the labyrinthine caves of her childhood are hiding old secrets . . . dangerous, deadly secrets.And Jenna must face her own darkest terrors to expose a legacy of murder carved in stone.

The Stone Forest (Large Print)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

MIRA

Dark Harvest

Contemporary

DOUBLEDAY

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