From Carolly Erickson comes a novel about the bitter rivalry between Queen Elizabeth I and her fascinating cousin, Lettie Knollys, for the love of one extraordinary man. This is the story of the only woman to ever stand up to the Virgin Queen. Far more attractive than the queen, Lettie soon won the attention of the handsome and ambitious Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, a man so enamored of the queen and determined to share her throne that it was rumored he had murdered his own wife in order to become her royal consort.
