The Girl in the Glass Tower

Tudor England. The word treason is on everyone's lips. Arbella Stuart niece to Mary Queen of Scots and presumed successor to Elizabeth I has spent her youth behind the towering windows of Hardwick Hall. As presumed successor to the throne her isolation should mean protection - but those close to the crown are never safe. Aemilia Lanyer - writer and poet - enjoys an independence denied to Arbella. Their paths should never cross. But when Arbella enlists Aemilia's help in a bid for freedom she risks more than her own future. Ensnared in another woman's desperate schemes Aemilia must tread carefully or share her terrible fate . . .