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Revenge!
First published 2009
Elizabethan London. Ben Button befriends a young thief who is living disguised as a boy and learns that she is a runaway named Jane. Her family was dispossessed by a powerful nobleman, and she is determined to take revenge on the man she blames for her father's death.
Ben initially tries to prevent Jane from committing violence, but evidence suggests that her enemy may be secretly selling cannon to England's Spanish opponents. The actors' forthcoming performance at the nobleman's betrothal celebration gives Ben access to a household where personal grievance and political treason overlap. The third Elizabethan Mysteries novel combines the life of an apprentice actor with the arms trade and the continuing threat of Spain during Elizabeth I's reign.
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