The Elizabeth I Spymaster Chronicles

by C. W. Gortner 3 books in this series

The Elizabeth I Spymaster Chronicles follow the fictional Brendan Prescott from the last months of Edward VI through Mary I’s reign and the accession of Elizabeth I. Raised in the Dudley household, Brendan becomes an intelligence agent whose divided loyalties draw him into succession plots, religious conflict and investigations for Elizabeth and William Cecil. The trilogy uses a personal mystery about Brendan’s origins to connect the Lady Jane Grey crisis, Wyatt’s Rebellion and the fragile beginning of the Elizabethan settlement. Real rulers, councillors and courtiers appear alongside invented conspirators, giving the series the structure of a political thriller while preserving the chronology of Tudor regime change.

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Books in this series (3 books)

#1 – The Tudor Secret

C. W. Gortner

England, 1553. Brendan Prescott has been raised in the household of the powerful Dudley family and sent to court as a servant to Robert Dudley. As Edward VI’s health fails and the succession becomes dangerously uncertain, Brendan is drawn into the service of Princess Elizabeth and…

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#2 – The Tudor Conspiracy

C. W. Gortner

Winter, 1553–1554. Mary I is on the throne, Protestant opponents are imprisoned and suspicion has settled on her half-sister Elizabeth. Recalled to London by William Cecil, Brendan Prescott is ordered to recover private letters that could connect Elizabeth to a rebellion against Mary’s proposed Spanish marriage.…

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#3 – The Tudor Vendetta

C. W. Gortner

Elizabeth I has taken the throne, but the new government remains vulnerable to religious division, dynastic rumour and court rivalry. Brendan Prescott returns as the queen’s confidential agent and is sent north after Lady Parry, one of Elizabeth’s attendants, disappears. At an isolated Yorkshire manor he…

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