#paperback#fiction#historicalfiction#romance#philippagregory Elizabeth’s excited triumphs is short-lived. She has inherited a bankrupt country were treason is rampant in foreign war a certainty. Her faithful advisor William warns her that she will survive only if she marries a strong prince to govern the rebellious country, but the one man Elizabeth desires as her childhood friend, the ambitious Robert Dudley. As a young couple falls in love, a question hangs in the air: can he really said aside his wife and marry the queen? (wear on paperback cover from old pricing sticker)