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First UK edition with a single #1 as the number sequence indicating a first printing. Price still on dustjacket. “Spoiled, arrogant, filthy rich, and breathtakingly beautiful, the young Lady Godiva Dacre is exiled from the court of Good Queen Bess (who can’t abide red-haired competition) to her lonely estate in distant Cumberland, where she looks forward to bullying the peasantry and getting her own imperious way. Little does she guess that the turbulent Scottish border is the last place for an Elizabethan heiress, beset by ruthless reivers (many of them unshaven), blackmailing ruffians, fiendish Spanish plotters intent on regime change and turning Merrie England into a ghastly EU province, and a cast of supporting heavies who include a Wizard in a pointy hat, a dance-crazed Dominican chaplain, sundry gorgeous villainesses, and even an Amazon pygmy with a blowpipe and poisoned darts. (In Elizabethan England? Oh, why not?).” An unusual tale from the author of The Flashman Series. IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DESPATCH