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Following the turmoil of Civil War, a fragile sense of stability has returned to the country. London, 1657 The youngest daughter of Oliver Cromwell, eighteen-year-old Frances is finding her place at England's new centre of power. Her father has risen to the unprecedented position of Lord Protector of the Commonwealth, and Frances has found herself transported from her humble childhood home to the sumptuous palaces of Hampton Court and Whitehall, where she dreams of a love match that must surely be found at court. But after an assassination attempt on the Cromwell family, Frances realises the precarious danger of her position - and when her father is officially offered the crown, Frances's fate suddenly assumes diplomatic and dynastic importance.