Bess Throckmorton's only hope for the future is to go to Court and become Elizabeth's Maid of Honour. It is here, amongst the glamour and machinations of the Elizabethan court, and under the elderly Queen's jealous eye, that she falls in love with Sir Walter Ralegh. Bess and Sir Walter are imprisoned in the Tower for marrying, but on their release are free to continue their lives together. Despite Sir Walter's frequent travels and adventures, their intense love for each other never dwindles. They endure thirteen years of imprisonment during James' reign and only a bloody death has the power to end their life-long affair.
Katie Flynn was born in Norwich and attended Norwich High School, where she was extremely happy and extremely undistinguished. Published at the tender age of eight, in Enid Blyton's Sunny Stories, she joined a Writers’ Circle as an adult, publishing short stories, articles, etc; only turning to novels in 1971 because the postal strike cut off her main source of income! At first she wrote under several different names – Judith Saxton, Judy Turner, Lydia Balmain, Judith Arden – but her Katie Flynn books were a delight to write and proved far more popular than she had dreamed. She has now published nearly ninety novels, twenty-seven of which are Flynns. Her most recent titles are: Lost Days of Summer and Christmas Wishes.