Harper, Karen

1939. On the brink of World War II, Elizabeth, the wife of King George VI and the mother of the future queen, shows a warm, smiling face to the world. But it's no surprise to her that Hitler has dubbed her "the most dangerous woman in Europe". For behind that soft voice and kindly demeanor is a will of steel. Two years earlier, George was thrust onto the throne when his brother Edward abdicated to marry his American mistress, Mrs. Simpson. Vowing to do whatever it takes to make her husband's reign a success, Elizabeth endears herself to the British people and prevents the former king and his brazen bride from ever again setting foot in Buckingham Palace. Elizabeth holds many powerful cards, but she's also hiding damaging secrets about her past and her provenance which could prove to be her undoing.

"Reimagines the life of American heiress Consuelo Vanderbilt as the reluctant and bullied bride of the Duke of Marlborough before she finds the inner strength to fight for women's equality"--OCLC.

Queen Elizabeth I calls upon her small, select band of advisors for help when a murderer begins terrorizing her summer residence.

Raised in a family at the center of the struggle for Irish home rule, young Irish noblewoman Elizabeth Fitzgerald, known as "Gera", flees to England as most of her relatives are imprisoned or executed. Entering court politics first as a lady-in-waiting to Henry's doomed fifth queen and later wife to highly placed courtier Sir Anthony Browne, her desire for revenge and the reinstatement of her family is balanced by respect for the disinherited princesses Mary and Elizabeth, care for her husband's position, and her secret attraction to seagoing nobleman Edward Clinton.

Presents an historical fiction featuring Elizabeth Tudor who sets out to learn who is out to destroy her royal portraits and threatening her life.

Joan of Kent, a high-spirited girl in fourteenth-century England, is sent to the court of King Edward III where she plots to create a scandal with Edward, Prince of Wales, in retaliation for her father's downfall and death, but she finds herself growing to love Edward, and is faced with a terrible dilemma when she learns he returns her feelings.

Former Tudor court spy Katherine Ashley befriends the doomed queen Anne Boleyn and becomes governess and surrogate-mother to the young Princess Elizabeth and her most trusted confidante when Elizabeth is crowned.

A fictionalized account of the life of Anne Whateley of Temple Grafton, who was betrothed to William Shakespeare days before he was forced to marry the pregnant Anne Hathaway of Shottery, and went on to secretly marry her great love during a treacherous time in Elizabethan England.

When the members of Queen Mary's court are killed, the queen's half sister, Princess Elizabeth, is called on to find the killer before he takes his final victim.