Feisty orphan Pippa de Lacey lives by wit and skill as a London street performer. But when her sharp tongue gets her into serious trouble, she throws herself upon the mercy of Irish chieftain Aidan O'Donoghue. Pippa provides a welcome diversion for Aidan as he awaits an audience with the queen, who holds his people's fate in her hands. Amused at first, he soon becomes obsessed with the audacious waif who claims his patronage.

Guapo e incorregible, Oliver de Lacey siempre ha vivido a tumba abierta: el vino, las armas y las mujeres son sus emblemas. Ni siquiera cuando una misteriosa sociedad secreta lo salva de la horca siente el impulso de abandonar sus costumbres libertinas. La única pasión de mistress Alondra es su labor clandestina junto a un grupo de rebeldes protestantes que intenta impedir las ejecuciones ordenadas por la reina. Alondra no busca nuevas emociones......

Travel back to the glittering Tudor court with #1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs in her beloved Tudor Rose Trilogy. AT THE KING'S COMMAND Frustrated by his own failures at matrimony, King Henry VIII punishes insolent nobleman Stephen de Lacey by commanding him to marry the vagabond woman caught stealing his horse. But what begins as a mockery of a marriage ultimately blossoms into deepest love. THE MAIDEN'S HAND When roguishly...

A foiled execution, a queen's tense reign, and an unlikely romance: sparks fly between a hedonistic noble and a feisty activist in this thrilling historical tale from #1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs.
Roguishly handsome Oliver de Lacey has always lived lavishly: wine, weapons and women are his bywords. Even salvation from the noose by a shadowy society provides no epiphany to mend his debauched ways.
Mistress...