The Stolen One

No one wanted you. But I did.
Kat’s true identity is a secret, even from her. All she has ever known are Grace and Anna and their small village. Kat wants more, more than hours spent embroidering finery for wealthy ladies and more than Christian, the gentle young farmer courting her.
But there are wolves outside, Grace warns. Waiting, with their eyes glowing in the dark… and Grace has given Kat safety and a home when no one else would. Then a stranger appears in their cottage, bringing the mystery of Kat’s birth with her. In one night, Kat’s destiny finds her: She will leave. She will journey to London, and her skill with the needle will attract the notice of the magnificent Queen Elizabeth and of the wolves of the court. She will discover what Grace would never tell her. Everything will unravel.

“A moment later we were under a stairwell, her face half obscured in the dark. “ Where did you get that necklace?” she hissed, her fingers gripping my arm painfully again. “Do you know it? Is it yours?”
My heart raced in my chest. “You do not ask a queen questions!” she roared. “Where did you get it?” “It was my mother’s !” Aye, it was hers. I knew it with all my beings. She stood back and looked at me, her head cocked like a cat examining a cornered mouse.”

The author Suzanne Crowley has always been fascinated with Elizabethan England, and according to family lore, she is a distant relative of Lady Jane Grey, the Nine Days Queen.