Review: An untraditional Elizabethan romance
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 12, 2011
This is not the traditional historical romance where a spunky young woman flits about the Season winning the heart of an established rake.  In this short story, a young woman raised is educated by the Queen after her mother dies.  Her mother had angered the Queen by running away with a commoner on the eve of her wedding.  The Queen seeks to mend the past by marrying the daughter into the same family that the mother rejected.  The daughter faces a choice ... does she do as the Queen demands, or follow in her mothers footsteps.  Her choice is influenced by a letter she receives written by her mother.