The House of the Red Duke. Book Two Beware the Lizard Lurking

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>The Howards are back</em>! </strong><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Larger than life and brasher than ever. A secret Twelfth Night wedding</span><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em> </em></strong><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>is about to take place far from Henry VIII's magnificent Christmas court at Greenwich. Heads will surely roll if he discovers the deception. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>But when</span><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em> </em></strong><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>uninvited guests</span><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em> </em></strong><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>turn up in Cornwall there's a new twist to the tale. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)></span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I've always believed in making a grand entrance. On the battlefield at court in manor and at mass at hearth and in harbour</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>...</span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>in the bedchamber</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The hot-headed young King is hellbent on a so-called holy war with France against the advice of Thomas Howard the Earl of Surrey. Putting Henry at odds with his normally affable Scottish brother-in-law James IV of Scotland. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>On the other hand the King's almoner Thomas Wolsey (who has become a thorn in the Earl's side) is very much in favour of the war as he contentedly watches his star rising at the Tudor court.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Across the Narrow Sea Louis XII of France is trying to renew the 'Auld Alliance' with Scotland.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Tristan and Nicolas remain at loggerheads over pretty Ysabeau the flirtatious young wife of their ageing neighbour.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)></span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>To Nicolas's annoyance Tristan rushed over to help Ysabeau down from her grey palfrey and was rewarded by a smile that was as bright as a summer's day.</em></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Valentine is still making mischief as she sees fit particularly for Tristan.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Cecily is perfectly content in her beloved Zennor Castle in Cornwall.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>But none of them know what Dame Fortune has in store for them. Will she allow them to follow their own paths...or does she have other ideas?</span></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>