With the suspected arrival of a known poison-maker, the atmosphere in the court electrifies, and suddenly the safety of the king himself seems uncertain. Alice steps up her efforts to find out who is and isn' t true to the queen, learns of shocking betrayals throughout court, and meets a man that she may be falling in love with- and who will spoil all of her plans. When a member of the royal family dies unexpectedly, and poison is suspected, the stakes are raised. But Alice, loyal only to a select few, is devoted to the queen, and so sets out to discover who might be making sinister plans, and if her own father is one of them. Since the Restoration, old political alliances have frayed, and there are whispers that the king is moving to divorce his barren queen, who some wouldn' t mind seeing dead. But all is not as it seems in the rowdy, merry court of Charles II. As a duchess, Alice will be able to make or break her friends and enemies at will. Then she will marry the most celebrated duke of the Restoration, putting herself in a position to attain power she' s only dreamed of. First, she will regain her former position as a maid of honor to Charles II' s queen. Now she is returning home to England and anxious to re-establish herself quickly. Having left Restoration England in the midst of a messy scandal, she has been living in Louis XIV' s Baroque, mannered France for two years.
Alice Verney is a young woman intent on achieving her dreams.
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