Kenilworth

At the Black Bear, Giles Gosling says his nephew Michael Lambourne is “better lost than found”—until a well-armed stranger claims the rogue has become a hero abroad. What does this traveller really want from the innkeeper?

In Elizabethan England, the lively Black Bear inn near Oxford is a meeting place for travellers, soldiers and secrets. Beyond its bustling rooms, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, has secretly married Amy Robsart while seeking Queen Elizabeth’s favor and the power it promises. As royal festivities draw near at Kenilworth Castle, Leicester must keep his private devotion hidden from a court where every favor has a price—and every secret may find a listener. Can he hold together the life he wants and the future he is pursuing?

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