She didn't intend to defy the conventions of Elizabethan England... But willful, impulsive, and strikingly beautiful gentlewoman Kat Langdon disguises herself as a boy, masters the sword and entangles herself in a treacherous web of intrigue with Queen Elizabeth's spies. Colorfully written, and rich in details of period costume, speech, food, customs, and more, this novel sweeps across Elizabethan England in a series of breathtaking adventures that takes the heroine from the action and spectacle of the Catholic-Huguenot Civil Wars to the horror of the Spanish Inquisition.