By Amanda Quick
From an impressive ballroom ablaze with lighting fixtures to a majestic nation condo steeped in shadows comes a wide ranging story of an impetuous miss--and a fondness that results in peril...
At 5 and twenty, Prudence Merryweather knew rather well the dangers a girl took through traveling a gentleman at the hours of darkness. yet bearding the infamous Earl of Angelstone in his den was once the single option to cease him from attractive her hot-headed brother in a duel. And that was once why she came across herself ushered into Sebastian's forbidding presence at 3 within the morning--and completely kissed sooner than dawn.
She was once a country-bred innocent--and an exciting adventure for a guy who dwelt extra within the shadows than within the sunshine. but as her boldness drew Prue into one harmful episode after one other, Sebastian chanced on himself torn among a raging starvation to own her and a using have to defend her. And the reckless attractiveness might quickly desire all of the safeguard she may possibly get...
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But our lovemaking had been very real, and I yet treasured the memory. Nor, I told myself, would I forget this one, for I’d never been inside the vast structure that housed the queen’s wardrobe, that which was not of immediate need and kept at Whitehall Palace. I’d adored Elizabeth of England from the first moment I’d seen her, gorgeously gowned, on a white horse, when I was but eleven and she’d come to visit her favorite, the Earl of Leicester, near my home in Warwickshire. The boy led me round the corner into an alcove hidden from the street.
I asked, for a man as important as Edward Arden in this area owed direct allegiance to Leicester. He shook his head and leaned closer. “More like, he’s foregone it. Leicester’s been as mean as that bear on the tunics. He pesters and prosecutes recusants, and Cousin Edward’s spleen is up over it. ” Recusants were those with Catholic loyalties or leanings. They were recorded and fined if they didn’t attend the Protestant church. In the early days of her reign, the queen had commanded that everyone could keep his conscience private, but since several attempted Catholic plots and rebellions, she’d let her advisors convince her to change her policy.
We seemed to have passed from attire to military materials. As we rounded the next corner, my worst fears leaped at me from the shadows. Within a dimly lit grotto of garments, behind a small portable table sat a man simply but finely attired all in black; his amber eyes shone flatly, like an adder’s. It took me but a moment to realize I knew him—that is, I knew who he was. I had glimpsed him at court the time the players had taken me with them. His hunchback form was unmistakable. For months, the whole city had talked of naught but the bloodless battles between this man and the Earl of Essex.