Maiden's Hand

Roguishly handsome Oliver de Lacey has always lived lustily: wine, weapons and women are his bywords. Even salvation from the noose by a shadowy society provides no epiphany to mend his debauched ways.Mistress Lark''s sole passion is her secret work with a group of Protestant dissidents thwarting the queen''s executions. She needs no other excitement—until Oliver de Lacey drops through the hangman...