Imprisonment. Betrayal. Lost love. Murder. What more must a princess endure?

Elizabeth Tudor's teenage and young adult years during the turbulent reigns of Edward and then Mary Tudor are hardly those of a fairy-tale princess. Her mother has been beheaded by Elizabeth's own father, Henry VIII; her jealous half sister, Mary, has her locked away in the Tower of London; and her only love interest betrays her in his own quest for the throne.

Told in the voice of the young Elizabeth and ending when she is crowned queen, this second novel in the exciting series explores the...

The fate of Spanish princess Catherine of Aragon becomes uncertain when her betrothed--Prince Arthur of England--dies not long after the wedding. When Arthur's brother takes the throne and becomes Henry VIII, Catherine's resolve to become England's queen remains unshaken.