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Book Review of The Murder in the Tower (Stuart Saga, Bk 1)

The Murder in the Tower (Stuart Saga, Bk 1)
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Frances Howard wanted Henry, Prince of Wales, from the moment she saw him on the day she married Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex. But Henry soon cloyed, and Frances began a dangerous liasion with Robert Carr, first favorite of James I, and the only man to satisfy her deep sexual needs. To rid herself of an unwanted husband she enters the dark world of Charleatans, rogues and poisoners- a world to which Frances would return whenever ambition or desire seemed threatened