Ursula Blanchard Books in Order

In 1560, impoverished widow Ursula Blanchard is sent to attend Amy Robsart, Robert Dudley's fearful wife. When Amy dies under suspicious circumstances, Ursula uncovers murder, court scandal, and a plot that could endanger Queen Elizabeth.

Ursula goes undercover as a governess at Lockhill, where a murdered spy's message points to a Catholic conspiracy. Strange inventions, counterfeit coins, and her exiled husband's ties to the household make loyalty dangerously complicated.

Ursula is drawn into another dangerous mission for Elizabeth's government when political threats and personal loyalties collide. To protect the queen and those she loves, she must navigate a web of secrets, faith, and treason.

Living in France with her husband, Ursula is lured back to England when her daughter disappears. At Vetch Castle, she must investigate rumors of treason before a murder and a hidden conspiracy put her family in further danger.

Ursula is sent ahead of Queen Elizabeth's summer progress to Cambridge, responsible for the monarch's comfort and safety. Local rivalries and political ambition turn a ceremonial journey into a tense investigation.

At Queen Elizabeth's court, Ursula is caught between private hopes and a new political threat. As plots gather around the crown, she must decide whom she can trust before other people turn her into a pawn.

Ursula faces a case shaped by flight, divided loyalties, and the continuing danger around Elizabeth's throne. Her search for the truth leads through a Tudor world where a single secret can place an entire household at risk.

A new mystery pulls Ursula into perilous Elizabethan intrigue, where appearances can hide political schemes and murder. With threats closing in, she must use her court connections and hard-earned instincts to protect those in danger.

Ursula hopes to leave espionage behind after marrying Hugh Stannard. But a private job becomes cover for investigating rebel barons who want Mary, Queen of Scots on England's throne, placing home and country in danger.

Threatening messages from the exiled Countess of Northumberland are followed by strange events at Ursula's home. Accused of witchcraft, Ursula must expose the plot against her before fear and gossip send her to the gallows.

While escorting her foster daughter to the Netherlands, Ursula learns that a wealthy banker may be plotting to replace Elizabeth with Mary, Queen of Scots. Old enemies and unexpected faces make the journey especially dangerous.

Recently widowed Ursula finds her neighbor stabbed to death, while her loyal servant Brockley is blamed. Clearing his name brings her into the orbit of Walsingham and a deadly web of espionage around Elizabeth's court.

Ursula is ordered to marry a French count to secure an alliance, despite having no wish for a fourth husband. When a servant dies, she follows a trail of conspiracy and murder that could lead to national disaster.

Ursula travels to a remote Yorkshire house to obtain an ancient book sought by John Dee. Two earlier emissaries vanished, and the women guarding the manuscript disagree over whether it is valuable, dangerous, or heretical.

A troubled family reunion leads Ursula to murder, just as Elizabeth's proposed marriage to the Duke of Alençon divides the country. When a nobleman is accused, Ursula must untangle domestic secrets from high political stakes.

Ursula's young son is kidnapped during a tense debate over Elizabeth's French marriage plans. To save him, she is forced toward an unthinkable act of treason and must decide whether the queen can help.

Ordered to spy on a neighbor suspected of serving Spain, Ursula enters his household as an embroidery teacher. A corpse, a stolen dowry, and shattered glass suggest that her seemingly safe assignment is a lethal trap.

A visit to relatives in a Devon village becomes a mission for Walsingham when two agents die in suspicious accidents. Ursula must uncover what they learned about a possible invasion before the killer reaches her.

Reports of strange rites draw Ursula into an isolated New Forest village. With fears of a plot to replace Elizabeth with Mary Stuart, she must decide whether old customs conceal harmless belief or a real conspiracy.

Ursula attends a tenant's wedding, only to find the reluctant bride surrounded by a family with unexplained wealth. A murdered herbalist and stolen English cargoes point to dangerous secrets, and someone is ready to kill for them.

As Spain prepares its Armada, Ursula follows her runaway ward to Brussels. There she must rescue the girl, investigate a murdered courier, and judge whether an alliance with the Duke of Parma can save England.

After Walsingham's funeral, Ursula returns to her childhood home, where a relative's death is followed by violence. Old enemies, the Mercer brothers, close in on her family, forcing Ursula to fight for their survival.

In 1594, Ursula investigates disappearances along the Cornish coast after a survivor tells of pirates and a slave ship. Murders and an audacious kidnapping scheme reveal a threat that could make Elizabeth herself the ultimate prize.