While on the trail of a madman, Antonio Starabba finds something unexpected--the killer's next victims, tortured, in pain, but alive. Leila and Karl are both members of The Masters' Admiralty, the same powerful secret society Antonio is sworn to defend as a security officer--aka assassin. Rescuing
The Queen's Pleasure
β Scribed by Brandy Purdy
- Publisher
- Kensington
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 369 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
An epic novel of Elizabeth Iβher captivity, forbidden love, and rise to powerβfrom the author of The Queen's Rivals.
Accused of conspiring with rebels to steal the throne, Princess Elizabeth is relegated to the Tower of London by her half-sister, Queen Mary. There she finds solace in the arms of a fellow prisonerβher childhood friend, Robert Dudley.
Certain their days are numbered, their bond deepens. But they are spared the axe and Elizabeth soon wins the crown, while Robert returns to his wife and the unhappy union he believes cheated him of his destiny to be king.
As a daughter of Henry VIII and the ill-fated Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth knows firsthand the cruelty that marriage belies, and roundly rejects the many suitors eager to wed the "Virgin Queen"βwith the exception of the power-hungry Robert. But her conflicted love for him could threaten to destroy everything for which she has sacrificed so...
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