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A Queen’s Traitor
Mercenary For Hire Series book 2
A Medieval Historical Fiction Novel
by Sam Burnell
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Meet Richard Fitzwarren – An anti-hero with a dubious past, questionable morals but unswerving loyalties. AVAILABLE ON AUDIBLE.
Richard grinned and grasping his brother’s wrist said, “Terrible apart and even worse together – that would make us a fine family moto. Et mirabilia absque peius.”
Jack Fitzwarren, Richard’s displaced bastard brother, seeks a place at his brother’s side. Impulsive and hot headed, his attempts to gain his brother’s acceptance and approval often end badly. Finally the brothers are brought head to head when Richard tries to foil a plot against Elizabeth I.
Jack Fitzwarren, fearing his brother has died embarks on a reckless path, and whether or not Richard can save him remains to be seen.
Branded a traitor to the Crown for helping to foil a plot to remove the Princess Elizabeth from the succession, now he will risk all to save her from a plot to snatch her from England.
Protestant Reformers need a figurehead for their cause, and Elizabeth. is it. They truly believe the Princess will be safer in Europe away from her sister Mary’s cruel hand, but the lady does not want to go.
Elizabeth knows her destiny lies with England, and Jack’s lies with his brother – or so he hopes.
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The second book in the series witnesses the brother’s attempt to make their peace with each other. Jack foolishly involves himself his estranged family with disaterous results, and Catherine and Richard are attempt to save him from himself.
The backdrop is a consipiracy to abduct Elizabeth and take her to Holland and there to set up her up as Queen in waiting by her Protestant supporters. All of this is based on historical fact. Elizabeth has no wish to leave England and Richard Fitzwarren is there to lend his support and foil the plot.
Towards the end of the book as part of his own escape he becomes aware of a lost arms shipment, the location of which has been lost. With a buyer in mind he sets his sights towards Malta.
(Sam Burnell, March 2019)
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