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The Elizabeth I Spymaster Chronicles · Book 1

The Tudor Secret

by C.W. Gortner

Published
1 February 2011
Pages
327
ISBN-13
9780312658502
Type
novel

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About this book

The Tudor Secret is a novel by C.W. Gortner, published in 2011 at 327 pages. It opens The Elizabeth I Spymaster Chronicles series and is followed here by The Tudor Conspiracy. The series ran to completion in 2014 across 3 books. Originally self-published in 2004 as The Secret Lion (Heliographica Press); St. Martin's Press acquired and republished it under this title in 2011 as the launch of the Elizabeth I Spymaster Chronicles. Not a separate book from The Secret Lion -- tracked here once, under its trade-published title, following this catalogue's convention for retitled reissues (cf. Lip Service in m-j-rose.json).

Its place in The Elizabeth I Spymaster Chronicles

The Tudor Secret is book 1 in the The Elizabeth I Spymaster Chronicles series. It is followed by The Tudor Conspiracy. See the full The Elizabeth I Spymaster Chronicles reading order.

Before he became known for his novels about famous historical women, C.W. Gortner wrote this Tudor-court spy trilogy following Brendan Prescott, a stableboy of murky parentage swept into the deadly intrigue surrounding the young Princess Elizabeth. The Tudor Secret opens in the final days of Edward VI's reign, as Brendan is pulled from Elizabeth's household into a web of secrets involving his own hidden birth and the succession crisis engulfing England. The Tudor Conspiracy finds him operating as a spy for…

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