From a brilliant new player in the court of royal fiction People, comes the mesmerizing story of Lady Penelope Devereux—the daring young beauty in the Tudor court, who inspired Sir Philip Sidneys famous sonnets even while she plotted against Queen Elizabeth. Penelope Devereux arrives at Queen Elizabeths court where she and her brother, the Earl of Essex, are drawn into the aging Queens favor. Young and naïve, Penelope, though promised elsewhere, falls in love with Philip Sidney who pours his heartbreak into the now classic sonnet series Astrophil and Stella. But Penelope is soon married off to a man who loathes her. Never fainthearted, she chooses her moment and strikes a deal with her husband after she gives birth to two sons, she will be free to live as she chooses, with whom she chooses.
