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From the acclaimed writer of To Die For comes a stirring book informed that sheds fresh light on Elizabeth I and her court.Like Philippa Gregory and Alison Weir, Sandra Byrd has drawn numerous followers for causing the complexity, violence, and grandeur of the Tudor period. In her latest tour-de force, she poses the question: What are the results when helping a king could cost you-your relationship--or your lifetime?In 1565, seventeen-year-old Elin von Snakenborg leaves Sweden on the dangerous trip to England. Her fiance has fallen in deep love with her cousin and her dowry income has been gambled away, but in front of her lies an experience that'll take her to the wild heights of Tudor energy. Changed through relationship into Helena, the Marchioness of Northampton, she becomes the greatest-ranking female in Elizabeth's group.