Hannah Green, a fourteen-year-old Jewish girl, is forced to flee Spain with her father when the inquisition captures her mother and burns her at the stake. They arrive in Tudor England pretending to be protestents and start up a bookshop and this is where Hannah meets Sir Robert Dudley. She sees an angel behind him and he realises she has the gift of sight and he arranges for her to become young King Edward's court fool as well as spy on Princess Mary. When Edward dies she become Queen Mary's fool. She comes to love her Queen who sets her to spy on Princess Elizabeth. Hannah finds herself walking a dangerous tightrope as political intrigues hatch around her, and the discovery of her own background would be grounds for death.
An intriguing tapestry of historical events and personages together woven together with the intrigues that were rife in the Tudor court of the Queen who would become known as Bloody Mary.
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