My Enemy, the Queen

My Enemy, the Queen by Victoria Holt. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780006160892.

Is Queen Elizabeth I too wily or too afraid to marry? Or is there a spoiler -- Lettice Devereaux -- in the royal romances? The marriage between this beautiful and tempestuous widow and Elizabeths longtime favorite, the Earl of Leicester, cant have endeared Lettice to the queen. Some years later, on Leicesters death, another courtier wins the queens heart -- only to break it by secretly marrying someone else and then by plotting against the Crown. This soldier-poet, the Earl of Essex, is the son of Lettice and her first husband, Walter Devereaux. "Holt skillfully weaves invention and suspense into the fabric of history." (B-O-T Editorial Review Board)