The Midnight Swan by Kate Clisson (.ePUB)
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The Midnight Swan by Kate Clisson
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Overview: My Lady Jane meets Slow Horses in this tantalising tale of intrigue, passion and betrayal set in Elizabethan London.
London, 1582
“A Midnight Swan will devour a Queen with a little knife cloaked in gold…”
Lady Frances Wylde isn’t your typical lady-in-waiting; she’s a silver-tongued French spy with a nose for intrigue and a talent for mischief. A veteran of Catherine de’ Medici’s notorious Flying Squadron of spies and seductresses, Frances is in the midst of her most perilous mission yet: to persuade the headstrong Virgin Queen to marry the Duke of Anjou, confirming an alliance that could shift the balance of power in Europe against Spain.
When a plot to kill the Queen is uncovered and Frances is named as assassin-in-waiting, she is forced into the service of The Queen’s Spider, Sir Roger Savage—a ruthless intelligencer on the rise—and must uncover the truth to buy her freedom.
Navigating the murky alleyways of Elizabethan London and the corridors of court, Frances faces both hidden blades and lurking ghosts from her past, including the brash, northern turnspit turned balladeer, Captain Kirby, who sees through her tightly laced spy persona and threatens to unravel the woman she’s hidden away—even from herself.
In a world where loyalties shift like fog on the Thames, can Frances outwit her enemies and escape the axe?
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
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