Queen Elizabeth's half-sister and secret agent Ursula Stannard takes on a dangerous new mission involving mysterious disappearances and murder in Cornwall in this gripping Tudor mystery.

Ursula Stannard is attending…

July, 1573. Ursula’s neighbour Jane Cobbold is found dead in her own flowerbed, stabbed through the heart - and Ursula’s manservant Brockley is arrested for the crime. Determined to prove…

April, 1590. Ursula Stannard, the queen's half-sister and occasional secret agent, is summoned back to her childhood home, Faldene House, after Sir Francis Walsingham's funeral. But her return puts those…

November, 1569. When Ursula Blanchard’s new husband unwittinlgy endangers the possession of his ancestral home, Ursula is forced to take on a seemingly hopeless but handsomely paid, private assignment, investigating…

Sir William Cecil has a mission for Ursula Blanchard. She must visit group of recusant women led by Abbess Philippa Gould. They possess an ancient book that the Queen’s advisor…

Ursula is summoned to court to assist in negotiations for Queen Elizabeth’s engagement to the Duke of Alencon. The proposed marriage causes unrest throughout the kingdom - but would someone…

March, 1588. As King Philip of Spain amasses a vast fleet of warships ready to invade England, Queen Elizabeth and her advisors seek a possible alliance with the Duke of…

May, 1586. Etheldreda Hope, a simple countrywoman, has come to Ursula Blanchard with tales of strange goings-on in her rural village. Fearing that her reports of mysterious forest rites indicate…