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At Queen Elizabeth's palace, intrigue abounds. So when a naive young lady with a gift idea for willing observation gets into the courtroom, she can hardly visualize the role she will play in providing England - - indeed, the complete of European countries - to the brink of war. Nor can she foresee her own voyage to the brink of ecstasy and beyond. When she becomes a junior girl of Queen Elizabeth's bedchamber, Rosamund is instructed by her cousin, the brilliant and devious secretary of express Sir Francis Walsingham, to record everything she observes. Her promised compensation: an opportunity at a good marriage. But through her sibling Thomas, Rosamund detects herself drawn to the forbidden, rough-and-tumble world of theater, and to Thomas's good friend, the remarkable, impetuous playwright Christopher Marlowe. And then Rosamund meets Will Creighton - a persuasive courtier, poet, and would-be playwright who is the embodiment of unsuitable match. The unsanctioned relationship between Rosamund and can attracts the wrath of Elizabeth, who prides herself on being the Virgin Queen. Rosamund is sent in disgrace to a distant castle that supports Elizabeth's cousin Mary Stuart, the imprisoned Queen of Scots. Here, Walsingham desires Rosamund to discover proof of a storyline against Elizabeth. But surely, nothing at all good will come of putting an artless young lady in such close closeness to so many seductive players and deceptive game titles. Unless, of course, Rosamund can discover an affinity for enthusiasm and intrigue herself. New York Times and USA Today best-selling publisher Jane Feather conspires with background to inform this dazzling story about two very real, very wily queens - and one impassioned young girl whose life they change forever.
