If you like this book, I have more like it. Bellocq convinces Thatcher/Ezzedine to spy on James to answer the question, is James Protestant like he says he is, or is he secretly Catholic? Phillips keeps things moving through plenty of backstory and we feel Thatcher/Ezzedine's contempt for the foggy, faithless, filthy place that was Britannia at the beginning of the 17th century in this dramatic, suspenseful tale.
Bellocq finds Matthew Thatcher, born Mahmoud Ezzedine, an exiled physician to the Sultan of the Ottomans and resigned to never going home. The question troubling spy Geoffrey Bellocq and his masters is whether James will plunge England into the religious strife that blanketed the country prior to Elizabeth taking the throne. Intrigue was rife, even for the royal courts of the time, and it has proven great fodder for novelists, including Arthur Phillips, whose recently published The King at the Edge of the World takes place when the queen is obviously dying, and it looks like James VI of Scotland will be her heir. Get Full eBook File name 'MaidofSecrets-JenniferMcGowan.pdf. The fact that she remained unmarried and childless was a cause of much concern. Download Book 'Maid of Secrets (Maids of Honor, 1)' by Author 'Jennifer McGowan' in PDF EPUB. Behind the mask of Gloriana, however, Good Queen Bess ran a police state that quickly stamped out the slightest opposition. Meg’s mission tests every talent she possesses, even her loyalty to her fellow Maids.England's Elizabeth I was virtually deified during her reign, known as Britain's Golden Age.
But it’s hard to trust her heart in a place where royal formalities and masked balls hide the truth.
As threats to the kingdom begin to mount, Meg can’t deny her growing attraction to one of the dashing Spanish courtiers. The Spanish Court is visiting, and with them come devious plots and hidden political motives. Meg’s natural abilities as a spy prove useful in this time of unrest. Instead of rotting in prison like she expected, she’s whisked away to the court of Queen Elizabeth and pressed into royal service, where she joins four other remarkable girls in the Maids of Honor, the Queen’s secret society of protectors. Orphan Meg Fellowes makes her living picking pockets-until she steals from the wrong nobleman. In this “lively and fast-paced debut” with “plenty of action and plot twists” ( Kirkus Reviews), a secret society of young women make up Elizabeth I’s most trusted royal guard.
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