The King's Favourite

The King's Favorite by Marjorie Bowen set in King James I's reign is about the forbidden between clandestine lovers Frances Howard and Robin Carr, who are entangled in the throes of a deadly love and forces not to be trusted influencing them. Excerpt: «Weston can manage alone, replied the old man, nodding towards the sulky manservant. He looked up again at the tumultuous sky; he felt inspired and stimulated, almost as if with the aid of the bright sunbeams he could peer into those affairs of mankind that amused him, Simon Forman, so much, and from which he drew so comfortable a profit.»