Working to establish her image through a series of carefully censored portraits, the young queen Elizabeth I finds her efforts thwarted by a pyromaniac who would destroy both her life and the kingdom, in a seventh installment set in Nonsuch Palace. By the author of The Queene's Christmas. Reprint.
Woodstock for the millennial generation.
Mirrors” 1). In spite of attempts to keep the difficult process of mirror manufacture secret, the technique was leaked ... At the opening of The Fyre Mirror, the once mute boy, Gil, from The Tidal Poole, has returned to England from his ...
The epic tale continues with the shocking birth of Avenrael¿s twins, Fyre and Rayne.
This is a book about the incentives that shape us, and about how hard it is to see ourselves clearly through a culture that revolves around the self.
"Harper's facility with historical figures is extraordinary." —Los Angeles Times "Fast-paced, suspenseful...readers will find themselves spellbound by the characters, plotting and plausible period detail."—Publishers Weekly "Harper is ...
“ I wager one thing , ” Marie said , seeming fully alert at last . “ Their cuts might slow them down if you mean to chase them , Your Grace . ” ' Cause . ” Sally added , “ bet we know now who hurt Marie's aunt .
As the dog devoured it, Meg went out to watch Her Majesty open the Great Hall doors to the first footer. In the sudden hush in the Great Hall, the single knock echoed. At least it sounded, Elizabeth thought, relieved, as if Sussex was ...
“A spicy smell, rather too strong,” Anne Carey put in, wrinkling her pert nose. “I like it myself, and so does our queen, ... “You must take your sister riding while she's here, as she won't come out of her chamber for me,” Elizabeth ...
Karen Harper’s crowd-pleasing Elizabeth I Mystery series, hailed as “extraordinary” by the Los Angeles Times, continues with this marvelous, majestic novel.
Emerson, author of the Lady Appleton and Diana Spaulding mystery series, turns her hand to how it's done in this useful guide to writing historical crime fiction. Drawing on her...