By Slanderous Tongues

BY SLANDER...OR BY DARKEST SORCERY

Great Harry is dead and in the dark pool that holds Visions for the FarSeers of the Bright Court and the Dark, the images change and waver. A pale, thin girl sometimes wears a crown and sometimes has no head. But the fires of Mary's reign still burn bright as they swallow writhing men, women, and children.

If she ever reigns, Elizabeth will bring a burgeoning of art and joy, but elimination of that possibility is the evil elf lord Vidal Dhu's prime purpose, as he hatches schemes within schemes. And if his plan to involve the young princess in a scandal that would render her unfit to rule should fail, he has more twisted plans to eliminate Elizabeth once and for all.