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It really is May 1560. As sinister storm clouds gather overhead, 26-year-old Queen Elizabeth dispatches William Cecil, her most trusted adviser, to Scotland for critical negotiations. Handsome, ambitious Lord Robert Dudley reaches her part. But their leisurely midsummer idyll is cut short when the courts get better at lutenist plunges to his death from a parapet beneath the queen's windowpane. The loyal retainers of Elizabeth's privy council do not allow the state verdict of accidental death. Their anxieties are borne out when another tragedy stones the world, and points the best way to a conspiracy to lower Elizabeth and seize the throne. As ill winds of treachery swirl round the court docket, and suspicion falls on those within Elizabeth's close circle, a vengeful enemy slips from the shadows...a traitorous usurper who be sovereign. With The Twylight Tower, Karen Harper brings a famous era alive, sketching us into an intoxicating world of majesty and mayhem, politics intrigue and adventure...where threat is everywhere you go...and where a young queen journeys to greatness in the long shadow of her bloodstained history.
