Roses Have Thorns: A Novel of Elizabeth I

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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2013 by Sandra Byrd

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Byrd, Sandra.

Roses have thorns : a novel of Elizabeth I / Sandra Byrd.

p. cm.

1. Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533–1603—Fiction. 2. Great Britain—History—Elizabeth, 1558–1603—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3552.Y678R67 2012

813’.54—dc23

2012022886

ISBN 978-1-4391-8316-8

ISBN 978-1-4391-8318-2 (ebook)

All Old Testament Scripture quotations are taken from the King James Version. Public domain. All New Testament Scripture quotations are taken from Tyndale’s New Testament. A modern-spelling edition of the 1534 translation with an introduction by David Daniell. Translated by William Tyndale. Copyright © 1989 by Yale University Press. Used by permission.