When English exile Sir Anthony Shelby is murdered in Strasbourg, his daughter Cordell must accept the protection of marriage to his friend Roger Allington in order to return home to the dubious safety of Mary Tudor's England, where both are caught up in the plots around the Queen's sister Elizabeth About the author Kathy Lynn Emerson is the author of sixty-four traditionally published works of fiction and nonfiction under several names and has independently published other books. She won an Agatha Award for nonfiction for How to Write Killer Historical Mysteries and received the 2023 Lea Wait Award for "excellence and achievement." 387 pages

ISBN: 0061002208