Majesty, there is less danger in fearing too much than too little.

She had been born knowing that boldness erased fear, while cowardice invited it and earned her only more ill treatment. No matter how she shook with dread in private, she would never show fear before...

Pain was the only sign to her that she was alive and could feel emotion.

She was no sworn wife, but Robin was the only man she ever loved as a husband… though not as much as her crown and thrown. The truth that tore at her breast, turning her...

Sometimes Robert believed one thing and sometimes the other, and he wondered if that was true of all those who loved too much and in vain.

Like her father, Bess never forgot a hurt or a service.