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Mistress Rosamond Jaffrey is recruited by Queen Elizabeth I's
spymaster to be lady-in-waiting to Lady Mary, a cousin of the queen
who is being courted by Russia's Ivan the Terrible. However, there
are some nobles at court who will do anything they can to thwart
such an alliance and Rosamond must put herself in mortal peril to
protect her ward . . .
A female spymaster will face mortal danger to protect her husband
and her queen. . . Mistress Rosamond Jaffrey is recruited by Queen
Elizabeth I's spymaster to be lady-in-waiting to Lady Mary, a
cousin of the queen who is being courted by Russia's Ivan the
Terrible. However, there are some nobles at court who will do
anything they can to thwart such an alliance and Rosamond must put
herself in mortal peril to protect her ward . . .
Mistress Rosamond Jaffrey is summoned to Cornwall and finds herself
embroiled in an investigation involving smugglers, piracy - and
rumours of treason. June, 1584. On hearing news of the sudden death
of her stepfather, Sir Walter Pendennis, Rosamond Jaffrey must
leave London for Cornwall to look after the interests of her young
half-brother and try to mend her strained relationship with their
mother. However, on arriving in Cornwall, Rosamond makes the
shocking discovery that Sir Walter was in fact murdered - and
reluctantly she agrees to work with an agent of the queen's
spymaster, Sir Francis Walsingham, in order to unmask the killer.
Rosamond's investigations will lead her into a dangerous maelstrom
of smuggling, piracy - and rumours of treason.
The intriguing new mystery featuring Tudor sleuth, Mistress
Rosamond Jaffrey. When Lina Walkenden is found clutching a bloody
knife over the dead body of her brother-in-law and guardian,
there's only one person she can turn to for help: her childhood
friend Rosamond Jaffrey. Rosamond vows to do all she can to prove
Lina's innocence, but when it transpires Lina was being forced into
a marriage against her will and was instead besotted by her
fiance's charming yet unscrupulous nephew, her motives for murder
seem overwhelming. In desperation, Rosamond seeks out the help of
the Queen's spymaster himself, Sir Francis Walsingham - but when
she overhears a conversation at the French Embassy, it seems Lina's
plight is irrelevant in the face of potential treason. Rosamond
must do all she can to save her friend - and keep herself and her
family safe from a desperate killer.
Mistress Rosamond Jaffrey is recruited by Queen Elizabeth I's
spymaster to be lady-in-waiting to Lady Mary, a cousin of the queen
who is being courted by Russia's Ivan the Terrible. However, there
are some nobles at court who will do anything they can to thwart
such an alliance and Rosamond must put herself in mortal peril to
protect her ward . . .
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