By Rhys Bowen
The nationwide bestselling writer of Royal Blood whisks her heroine away to the French Riviera for fun-and hazard. Lady Georgiana Rannoch has once more been referred to as into provider through Her Majesty the Queen. This time she's despatched to great on a mystery task that's not anything to sneeze at-recover the Queen's stolen snuff box.
As a lot of an honor because it is to be depended on via Her Majesty, an excellent larger honor awaits Georgie in Nice-as Coco Chanel herself asks Georgie to version her most recent type. but if a necklace belonging to the Queen is stolen at the catwalk, Georgie has to discover worthy items-and remedy a homicide. How's a lady to discover any time to visit the on line casino?
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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.