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The Queen's Gamble by Barbara Kyle.  US release August 30, 2011.  Fourth in the Thornleigh series.

Isabel, the Thornleighs’ daughter, returns to London from the New World with her Spanish husband Carlos Valverde and their young son, and is swept up in the first international crisis of the young Queen Elizabeth’s reign: the French, who control Scotland, have landed troops along England’s border, threatening an invasion. The Queen
recruits Isabel to take money secretly to aid the Scottish rebel
faction who are trying to drive out the French. But when Carlos is sent to Scotland as a Spanish military advisor to the French troops, he and Isabel find they are on opposite sides in this deadly “cold” war – and the Queen has made their little boy her hostage.







Matilda:  Queen of the Conqueror by Tracy Borman.  Non-fiction.  UK release September 1, 2011. 

No summary yet.














Cavalier Queen by Fiona Mountain.  UK release September 8, 2011.

No summary yet but it is about Marie Henrietta and Charles I.
















Dark of the Moon by Tracy Barrett.  Young Adult.  US release September 19, 2011. (re-post to include cover)

Ariadne is destined to become a goddess of the moon. She leads a lonely life, finding companionship only with her beloved, misshapen brother Asterion, who must be held captive below the palace for his own safety.


Then a ship arrives bearing a tribute of slaves from Athens, and Ariadne meets Theseus, the son of the king of Athens. Ariadne finds herself drawn to the newcomer, and soon they form a friendship—one that could perhaps become something more.

But Theseus is doomed to die as an offering to the minotaur, that monster beneath the palace—unless he can kill the beast first. And that "monster" is Ariadne’s brother . . .