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Author | : Fiona Buckley |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2013-05-21 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1439139458 |
In this compelling debut of her historical mystery series, Fiona Buckley introduces Ursula Blanchard, a widowed young mother who has become lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth I. Armed with a sharp eye, dangerous curiosity, and uncanny intelligence, Ursula pledges... To Shield the Queen Rumor has linked Queen Elizabeth I to her master of horse, Robin Dudley. As gossip would have it, only his ailing wife, Amy, prevents marriage between Dudley and the Queen. To quell the idle tongues at court, the Queen dispatchesUrsula Blanchard to tend to the sick woman's needs. But not even Ursula can prevent the "accident" that takes Amy's life. Did she fall or was she pushed? Was Ursula a pawn of Dudley and the Queen? Suddenly Ursula finds herself at the center of the scandal, trying to protect Elizabeth as she loses her heart to a Frenchman who may be flirting with sedition against her Queen. She can trust no one, neither her lover nor her monarch, as she sets out to find the truth in a glittering court that conceals a wellspring of blood and lies.
Author | : Fiona Buckley |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 1998-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0671015311 |
Ursula Blanchard, a widowed young mother and a lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth I, finds herself at the center of a plot that could disgrace and threaten the life of Her Majesty. Reprint.
Author | : Fiona Buckley |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2010-06-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1451604092 |
From the author of To Ruin a Queen comes a “riveting social history in an exciting mystery setting” (Booklist, starred review) featuring Ursula Blanchard, lady-in-waiting and secret agent to Queen Elizabeth. Ursula Blanchard, loyal lady of the Queen's Presence Chamber and gifted sleuth, is at home amid the glittering complexities of the royal court. Now, Ursula has a new part to play in the service of her Queen—a role that exposes her to hidden dangers in the famed university town of Cambridge. Assigned as a harbinger for the Queen's upcoming Summer Progress to Cambridge, Ursula is placed in charge of not only Her Majesty's comfort, but also her safety. For Ursula, that means undertaking employment in a pie shop to investigate rumored political perils behind a swashbuckling student play conceived at the University to entertain the Queen. Even in such a bastion of Protestant power and scholarly pursuits as Cambridge, protecting the Queen is not purely academic. When a handsome young student's all-too-conveniently timed death rouses her suspicions, Ursula applies her superior powers of observation to untangling a mystifying jumble of oddities, coincidences, secrets, and ciphers that surround her...and discovers ominous signs of treason.
Author | : Fiona Buckley |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2004-12-07 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0743237528 |
The latest richly evocative and impressively researched mystery in a series that seamlessly blends riveting authenticity and masterful storytelling reveals the inside story behind Elizabeth and Mary Queen of Scots.
Author | : Fiona Buckley |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 355 |
Release | : 2008-05-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0743489098 |
Ursula Blanchard, lady-in-waiting to the new Queen Elizabeth I, is sent by her liege to France with a letter for the Queen Mother that could prevent war between rival Protestant and Catholic factions.
Author | : Fiona Buckley |
Publisher | : Severn House Pub Limited |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2013-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780727899422 |
Longing to settle down with her third husband, Ursula Blanchard is forced to take a private assignment to save her husband's ancestral home, a job Elizabeth I requires her to use to spy on a band of rebels who would put Mary, Queen of Scots, on the English throne.
Author | : Fiona Buckley |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Blanchard, Ursula (Fictitious character) |
ISBN | : 067101532X |
When Ursula is kidnapped and another spy is killed, she realizes she is a pawn in a treacherous plan that may ultimately involve murdering Queen Elizabeth.
Author | : Dianne Sylvan |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 2010-08-31 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101442573 |
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Author | : Sharon Cullen |
Publisher | : Loveswept |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2017-05-23 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 039917981X |
Blistering seduction meets international intrigue in the Highlands as a veteran spy infiltrates the court of Mary, Queen of Scots. There he matches wits against a tantalizing enemy: his new wife. Simon Marcheford wants nothing more than to settle down on the land bestowed upon him by the English crown. Queen Elizabeth, however, is not about to let her best spy retire so easily. Simon will have his reward, she decrees, after he completes one last mission in Scotland. But no sooner has he sussed out a diabolical plot up North than Queen Mary weds him to her cousin—an exquisite beauty with troubled, soulful eyes—and orders Simon to watch her every move. Aimee de Verris is no spy. But her life may depend on becoming one. Banished from the French court by Catherine de Medici, Aimee finds herself tasked with reporting on Queen Mary’s activities in Scotland, where she’s unnerved by the frigid weather and brutish customs. Worst of all, Aimee’s been married off to a most uncouth lout. But when murder strikes, she learns to appreciate Simon’s talent for shielding her with every inch of his muscular frame. If Aimee desires her husband, perhaps she could trust him—or even love him. Look for all of Sharon Cullen’s delightful historical romances: The All the Queen’s Spies series: WED TO A SPY | BOUND TO A SPY The Secrets & Seduction series: THE NOTORIOUS LADY ANNE | LOVING THE EARL | PLEASING THE PIRATE | HIS SAVING GRACE | SEBASTIAN’S LADY SPY | THE RELUCTANT DUCHESS The Highland Pride series: SUTHERLAND’S SECRET | MACLEAN’S PASSION | CAMPBELL’S REDEMPTION Praise for Wed to a Spy “The characters in this book were interesting and intriguing. The story was well written and sucked me in from the first page.”—Book Binge “A captivating launch to the series.”—Publishers Weekly “The character development was skillfully done, and the slow and sensual attraction between Simon and Aimee was slowly built and cleverly worked to perfection as Aimee discovered the difference between infatuation and true love.”—Color Me Read Includes an excerpt from another Loveswept title.
Author | : Natalie Baszile |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2014-02-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0698151542 |
The inspiration for the acclaimed OWN TV series produced by Oprah Winfrey and Ava DuVernay "Queen Sugar is a page-turning, heart-breaking novel of the new south, where the past is never truly past, but the future is a hot, bright promise. This is a story of family and the healing power of our connections—to each other, and to the rich land beneath our feet." —Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage Readers, booksellers, and critics alike are embracing Queen Sugar and cheering for its heroine, Charley Bordelon, an African American woman and single mother struggling to build a new life amid the complexities of the contemporary South. When Charley unexpectedly inherits eight hundred acres of sugarcane land, she and her eleven-year-old daughter say goodbye to smoggy Los Angeles and head to Louisiana. She soon learns, however, that cane farming is always going to be a white man’s business. As the sweltering summer unfolds, Charley struggles to balance the overwhelming challenges of a farm in decline with the demands of family and the startling desires of her own heart.