The Maiden's Hand

Description for THE MAIDEN'S HAND by Susan Wiggs:

A RECKLESS LORD -- A RIGHTEOUS LADY

Roguishly handsome Oliver de Lacey has always lived lustily: wine, weapons and women are his bywords. Even salvation from the noose by a shadowy society provides no epiphany to mend his debauched ways.

Mistress Lark's sole passion is her secret work with a group of Protestant dissidents thwarting the queen's executions. She needs no other excitement -- until Oliver de Lacey drops through the hangman's door and into her life.

As their fates become inextricably bound together in a struggle against royal persecution, both Oliver and Lark discover a love worth saving ... even dying for.

This is #2 in The Tudor Rose Trilogy.