Chase the Heart

Following the defeat of the Spanish Armada and the death of Queen Elizabeth's great friend Robert Dudley, the Earl of Leicester, Lady Neallanor Arnesley, his ward, is young, lovely, widowed, and a great success at court - until Dudley's death casts a menacing uncertainty over her future. Queen Elizabeth has discovered that Robert Dudley had left Lady Nell as small casket of letters, letters that must be retrieved unopened because they contain a secret that could change the line of succession to the throne of England.