Publisher's Synopsis
"The powerfully lascivious intersections of sexual and international politics...combined with Maxwell's electrifying pose,here make for enthralling historical fiction."-PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Destined to be Queen of England, Elizabeth, the daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, is banished from court at the age of two. She finds an unlikely ally in her father's sixth wife, Catherine Parr, who offers motherly love and protection to the young princess and her brother, Edward. But when Henry dies and nine-year-old Edward is crowned King, a new era of instability begins for the young monarch and the sister he has left behind in Chelsea House. Catherine's new husband, the charismatic Sir Thomas Seymour, has dangerous designs on the vulnerable teenage princess in his charge, and on the power to which she is the key...
