His Dark Lady by Victoria Lamb
The book entwines Lucy's story with Shakespeare's and plotting against Elizabeth. The book switches viewpoints to keep the pace up and make it more compelling to keep reading. The vivid sense of time and place is maintained from the previous book, and most of the characters will be familiar to you from it, although they have all aged. Shakespeare behaves badly, but it's good to have a character that you can dislike. Lucy, on the other hand, gets herself into several scrapes, and it's hard not to feel sorry for her. A lot of things happen in this book, and they might surprise you. The ending isn't as good as the first book, but it's difficult to squeeze history into neat structures. The author's notes at the end of the book explain which parts of the story are based on fact and which are made up.
If you haven't read The Queen's Secret yet, you should read it first because this book has spoilers and you'll want to get to know the characters from the beginning. If you have read The Queen's Secret, you should get this book to find out what happens next. The characters, setting, and pacing are just as good as before.
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