Scan of Pocket Books edition of Gardner F. Fox book published as by Jefferson Cooper.
RED WINE... FAIR WOMEN... FABULOUS WEALTH...These were the rewards Michael Goddard dreamed of when he returned to England with a treasure taken at sword's point from the proud galleons of the Spanish Main.But instead, Goddard was falsely accused of treachery to Queen Elizabeth. He was left to rot in a dungeon.Then, suddenly and mysteriously, he was helped to escape. His rescuer was a ravishingly beautiful woman he had never even seen before. And the mystery deepened when Good Queen Bess herself ordered him to perform a service upon which hung the fate of all England.Was this just another trap baited by an English beauty? Or was it the way for this lusty swordsman to regain his honor and his glittering fortune? What was Goddard to believe?
SECRETS IN THE BOUDOIR...
Lady Harriet Brampton pressed her body closer. ‘'You say
your name is William Parker,'‘ she teased. "Yet I believe it to be
something else."
A stab of fear went through Michael Goddard. Then he
realized this wanton ‘'lady" spoke in jest.
Goddard had come in disguise to Lady Harriet's boudoir
seeking the secret hiding place of a diary containing information which would
clear him of the charges against him and prove him a hero to Queen and country.
One false move and Michael was as good as dead. Yet, as his
hand reached to loosen the strings of her bodice, he could not resist saying,
"I agree, madam, we all have our secrets."