"None of your business," Alice Neville told the future Kingmaker of England when she was fourteen. She never did learn to give a safer answer.
Alice Neville is fourteen when she is caught eavesdropping on a family council plotting treason, and the man who catches her will one day be known as the Kingmaker.
Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, does not turn her in. He trains her instead.
Sent to the Countess of Salisbury to learn how to be a proper lady, Alice is taught something else instead: how to read the lie behind a smile, and how to vanish in a crowded hall while missing nothing. Somerset tightens his grip on the king. York gathers his allies in secret. The Nevilles need a spy no one would suspect, and Alice, quick and impossible to place, becomes exactly that.
What none of it trains her for is falling in love with him, a man who already has a wife, a title, and a war coming for him.
The Shadow Years is a slow-burn historical romance set on the eve of the Wars of the Roses, and the prequel to the Blood of the Bear series. It is the story of how a girl behind a tapestry became the woman history forgot to name.
Perfect for readers of Philippa Gregory and Elizabeth Chadwick.
The Kingmaker's Spy begins where this one ends.
Genre: Historical Romance
Alice Neville is fourteen when she is caught eavesdropping on a family council plotting treason, and the man who catches her will one day be known as the Kingmaker.
Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, does not turn her in. He trains her instead.
Sent to the Countess of Salisbury to learn how to be a proper lady, Alice is taught something else instead: how to read the lie behind a smile, and how to vanish in a crowded hall while missing nothing. Somerset tightens his grip on the king. York gathers his allies in secret. The Nevilles need a spy no one would suspect, and Alice, quick and impossible to place, becomes exactly that.
What none of it trains her for is falling in love with him, a man who already has a wife, a title, and a war coming for him.
The Shadow Years is a slow-burn historical romance set on the eve of the Wars of the Roses, and the prequel to the Blood of the Bear series. It is the story of how a girl behind a tapestry became the woman history forgot to name.
Perfect for readers of Philippa Gregory and Elizabeth Chadwick.
The Kingmaker's Spy begins where this one ends.
Genre: Historical Romance