The long-awaited prequel to Koen’s beloved Through a Glass Darkly, Dark Angels is a feast of a novel that sparkles with all the passion, extravagance, risk, and scandal of seventeenth-century England.

Alice Verney is a young woman intent on achieving her dreams. Time for England after a messy scandal compelled her to flee to Louis XIV’s France, Alice is usually anxious to re-establish herself by regaining her previous position being a maid of honor to Charles II’s queen and marrying probably the most about Dark Angels celebrated duke of the Recovery.

But all is not as it seems in the rowdy, merry courtroom of Charles II. Because the Recovery, old politics alliances possess frayed, and you can find whispers which the king is shifting to divorce his barren queen, who some wouldn’t brain seeing lifeless. Alice, loyal and then a go for few, is specialized in the queen, and so sets out to discover who might be producing sinister plans-and if her own father is one of these.

When a person in the royal family members dies unexpectedly, the stakes are raised. As Alice methods up her attempts to find out who is-and isn’t-true to the queen, she discovers of shocking betrayals throughout court, and meets a man who she may fall in like with-and who could spoil most of her plans. With the suspected arrival of a known poison-maker, the atmosphere in the courtroom electrifies, and instantly the protection of the king himself seems uncertain. Magic formula plots are at play, and war is around the horizon-but will it be using the Dutch or the French? And has Ruler Charles himself betrayed his country for greed?

Unforgettable in its dramatic push, this is a book of like and politics, of romance and betrayal, of power and succession-and of a resourceful young female who risks everything for pride and position in a time in which ladies were afforded little of either.