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The Tudor Vendetta (Spymaster Chronicles, Bk 3)
The Tudor Vendetta - Spymaster Chronicles, Bk 3 Author:C. W. Gortner When Elizabeth I takes the throne, Brendan Prescott is called to aid the young queen amid a realm plunged into chaos and a court rife with conspiracy. — London, 1558. Queen Mary is dead, and twenty-five-year-old Elizabeth ascends to the throne. Summoned to court from exile abroad, Elizabeth's intimate spy, Brendan Prescott, is reunited with t... more »he young queen, as well as his beloved Kate, the scheming William Cecil, and his archrival, Robert Dudley. A poison attempt on Elizabeth soon overshadows her coronation, but before Brendan can investigate, Elizabeth summons him in private to dispatch him on a far more confidential mission: to find her favored lady-in-waiting, Lady Parry, who has disappeared during a visit to her family manor in Yorkshire.
Upon his arrival at the desolate seaside manor where Lady Parry was last seen, Brendan encounters a strange, impoverished family beset by grief, as well as mounting evidence that they are hiding a secret from him. The mystery surrounding Lady Parry deepens as he begins to realize there is far more going on at the manor than meets the eye, but the closer he gets to the heart of the mystery in Vaughan Hall, the more he learns that in his zeal to uncover the truth, he could be precipitating Elizabeth's destruction.« less