For Ages
8 to 12

The Grace Mysteries: Assassin & Betrayal is a part of the The Grace Mysteries collection.

Two historical mysteries starring Lady Grace in one special volume!
In the Edgar-nominated Assassin, one suitor is dead with a knife in his back and another is under suspicion. . . Can Lady Grace, Queen Elizabeth's favorite Maid of Honor, solve the mystery and bring order back to the Queen's court? And in Betrayal, life as a stowaway on board an Elizabethan galleon—it's no place for a lady! But when her fellow Maid of Honor disappears with a dashing sea captain, Lady Grace knows she just has to investigate.

An Excerpt fromThe Grace Mysteries: Assassin & Betrayal

The Thirteenth Day of February, in the Year of Our Lord 1569

I am supposed to use this book to write all my prayers and meditations in. That's what Mrs. Champernowne said when she gave it to me for my New Year's Gift--and that I could make one of my beautiful embroideries for its cover, which I shall do, because I like making pictures with stitches. But why should I drone on like Lady Hoby about Improving Passages and Sorrowful Meditations on my sins? How boring!

Anyway, I don't commit any very terrible sins, apart from once ruining my gown when I jumped off a log. And losing things. That's why I haven't written anything in this before--I lost it under my bed for a while. But now I've found it I'm going to write everything in it. It can be a book about me, Lady Grace Cavendish, Maid of Honour. And all my favourite things. Why not?

My favourite person (apart from my mother, who is dead, God rest her soul) is Her Majesty…

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