title: The Queen's Bastard: A Novel
author:  Robin Maxwell 
description: Starred review Electrifying prose...enthralling historical fiction.<br /><br />Julia Barrett author of Presumption and <i>The Third Sister</i> Robin Maxwell is a storyteller who manages a rare originality in a period that has been done and done again. She has given us a glimpse into the tragic affair of the heart between Elizabeth and Robin Dudley. And by introducing us to the person of Arthur Dudley, she had defied stodgy academics, who would have kept us from knowing that such a character existed. Her plausible tale has allowed us to decide for ourselves if Arthur was, in fact, Elizabeth and Leicester's illegitimate son.
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  # The Viscount Who Seduced Her
  
  
  ### A Steamy Regency Romance
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Scarlett Osborne
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [![Scarlett Osborne](../images/00005.jpeg)
  
  
  ![Scarlett Osborne](../images/00003.jpeg)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [A Thank You Gift](part0002.html#1T140-1fa94ec24dbe468c90570fd32b79c327)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [About the Book](part0003.html#2RHM0-1fa94ec24dbe468c90570fd32b79c327)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 1](part0004.html#3Q280-1fa94ec24dbe468c90570fd32b79c327)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 2](part0005.html#4OIQ0-1fa94ec24dbe468c90570fd32b79c327)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 3](part0006.html#5N3C0-1fa94ec24dbe468c90570fd32b79c327)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 4](part0007.html#6LJU0-1fa94ec24dbe468c90570fd32b79c327)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 5](part0008.html#7K4G0-1fa94ec24dbe468c90570fd32b79c327)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 6](part0009.html#8IL20-1fa94ec24dbe468c90570fd32b79c327)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 7](part0010.html#9H5K0-1fa94ec24dbe468c90570fd32b79c327)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 8](part0011.html#AFM60-1fa9