The orphaned daughter of Katherine Parr and Henry VIII, sixteen-year-old Mary Seymour vies to gain acceptance and fend off her jealous relatives and castle-mates as she enters into Queen Elizabeth's court.
In Elizabethan England, a fifteen-year-old boy is entrusted by his dying brother with the mission of warning Christopher Marlowe of a plot on his life.
"A quiet life at Withysham with her young dauther is all that widowed Ursula Blanchard desires. But as the waiting woman and spy for Queen Elizabeth I, she forfeits her needs for the sake of those she is pledged to protect--even at her own peril.
When Shakespeare's son Hamnet disappears into the forest where Quicksilver reigns, Shakespeare must face a being with dreadful powers to rescue his son and the whole realm of magic.
When Kate Morgan is put in charge of an ancient manuscript that people are willing to kill over, Kate and her private investigating office become embroiled in an international conspiracy to cover up an assassination that took place in London over 200 years ago.
Lady Grace Cavendish, Elizabeth I's youngest maid of honor, finds herself in the midst of a battle at sea while posing as a boy aboard the ship of Francis Drake, where she and Masou stowed away in hopes of finding the kidnapped Lady Sarah.
A biographical portrait of Elizabeth I, detailing the personal as well as historical events that shaped her life, the country and culture from which she rose to power, and the struggles surrounding her career.