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The Rogue’s Princess
First published 2011
London, 1586. Mercy Hart is the sheltered daughter of a wealthy Puritan cloth merchant, while Kit Turner is an actor, an illegitimate son of the late Earl of Dorset and the half-brother of Will and James Lacey. Their attraction crosses the boundaries separating respectable mercantile households from the precarious theatrical profession. To marry Kit, Mercy would have to challenge her father’s religious authority and surrender the security attached to her family name.
The lovers’ private rebellion becomes dangerous when Kit drinks with Anthony Babington and is arrested on suspicion of involvement in the conspiracy to assassinate Elizabeth I and free Mary, Queen of Scots. London’s playhouses, prisons and intelligence networks turn romance into a struggle for survival, with a young William Shakespeare among Kit’s fellow players. Mercy must determine how far loyalty can extend when treason charges threaten Kit’s life and her own family rejects the world he represents.
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