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Queen Elizabeth of England has always been the Virgin Queen — but what if she is no such thing? What if she hasn't been a virgin since she was a teenager?
And what if King Philip of Spain could show evidence of that, and worse, to the misogynistic Puritans surrounding her at Court? The Book of the Unicorn could destroy Elizabeth personally and publicly - but where is it?
A man hanging weeping from the manacles in the Tower of London knows something,...
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A curtain of death advances towards England as King Philip of Spain's Armada closes in – the largest fleet the world has ever known. The Spanish believe that none can stand in its path.In it sails a man who works for the Inquisition and plans to open a Holy Office in London after the conquest. He hates all Jews and is determined to destroy them all, in England as well as Spain.Amid the chaos, Merula – a slave woman – desperately searches for...
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An English Catholic fanatic is on his way to England with Spanish gold and a plan to murder Queen Elizabeth I.Simon Ames knows that if England is conquered by Spain, he and all his family will be taken by the Inquisition, tortured until they confess and then burned at the stake – for being Jews. That's why he works for the Puritan Sir Francis Walsingham, the Elizabethan M.When Ames is beaten up in an alleyway off Fleet Street, David Becket, an ex-soldier...
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The 16th century is a hard and magnificent era to be born into, full of violence, squalor, forbidden love and rare glimmers of kindness. David Becket is a large ugly sword-master with a dark past; Simon Ames is a scrawny code breaker for Walsingham, the Elizabethan M – and a Jew. They meet when Ames is attacked in an alley in Whitefriars, London, and Becket bails him out. Later Ames will return the favour.'Firedrake's Eye' – 1583 – The mismatched...
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