Audio Book Description:
In the autumn of 1558, church bells across England ring outthe joyous news that Elizabeth I is the new queen. One woman hears the tidings with utterdread. Amy Dudley, wife of Sir Robert, knows that the peal of bells she hears will summon herhusband once more to power, intrigue, and a passionate loveaffair with the young queen. Elizabeth`s excitedtriumph is shortlived. She has inherited a bankrupt countrywhere treason is normal andforeign war a certainty. Her faithful advisor William Cecil warns her that shewill survive only if she marries a strong prince to govern the rebelliouscountry, but the one man Elizabeth desires is her childhood friend, the irresistable, ambitious Robert Dudley. Only Robert truely revels in theopportunites of the new reign. He knows he can reclaim his destiny at Elizabethsside. Elizabethcannot resist his courtship, and as the young coupleslowly falls in love, Robert starts to think the impossible: can he set aside his wife and marry the young queen?
