Also published as: Virgin: Prelude to the Throne

Author: Robin Maxwell Year: 2001 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Historical fiction, Fiction Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon Google Books eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781611457414 1611457416

A riveting portrait of Elizabeth I as a romantic and vulnerable teenager, dangerously awakening to a perilous liaison with the wrong man. England, 1547: King Henry is dead. Elizabeth's half-brother, nine-year-old Edward, is king in name only. Thomas Seymour, brother to the ambitious duke who has seized power in this time of crisis, calculatingly works his way into Elizabeth's home in genteel Chelsea House. He marries Henry's widow, Catherine Parr, and uses his venerable charms and sexual magnetism to indulge his infatuation for young Elizabeth. Caught hopelessly under Thomas Seymour's spell, surrounded by kind friends and hidden enemies, Elizabeth can only follow her heart to ensure survival. Similar books: The Queen's Bastard by Robin Maxwell Mademoiselle Boleyn by Robin Maxwell The Wild Irish by Robin Maxwell Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult Viking Tales by Jennie Hall Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann Sarum by Edward Rutherfurd The Autobiography of Henry VIII by Margaret George Rules of Civility by Amor Towles Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel Garcia Marquez One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver The Marriage of Opposites by Alice Hoffman London by Edward Rutherfurd The Son by Philipp Meyer