"Mistress Mary Shelton is Queen Elizabeth's favorite ward, enjoying every privilege the position affords. The queen loves Mary like a daughter, a

Chief Intelligencer John Shakespeare, the bard's younger brother, is summoned out of retirement back to the dangerous intrigues of the palace whe

Longing to settle down with her third husband, Ursula Blanchard is forced to take a private assignment to save her husband's ancestral home, a jo

Happily married to her third husband, Hugh Stannard, lady-in-waiting Ursula Blanchard is hoping to give up her undercover work for Queen Elizabet

Sixteen-year old Miranda has no idea how much her life is going to change upon hearing the news of her father's death. Left with little dowry to

Ursala is sent to get a job in a Cambridge pie shop that may be the center of a plot against Queen Elizabeth.

Ursula Blanchard, a lady of Queen Elizabeth's court, is sent to France to deliver a letter to the Regent to try to defuse the coming war between

Lady-in-waiting Ursula Blanchard is sent by Queen Elizabeth I to visit a scholar's home where she was the children's governess. Ostensibly a soci

When the powerful Duke of Norfolk arranges a marriage between her daughter and an unsuitable man, Ursula Blanchard, a half-sister to Elizabeth I,

"Widowed once again, Ursula, a sometime waiting woman and spy for Elizabeth, intends to live quietly with her small daughter, Meg, at Withysham,

Journeying to the side of her young ward, who has angered the queen with her infatuations with the married men at court, Ursula Blanchard receive