Cor Rotto: A Novel of Catherine Carey Knollys 2nd edition including foreword by moi now available.

At 16 and married for almost 5 months, she convinced her father, the Lord Admiral, to make her new husband the Vice-Admiral of Ireland . .

What if Mary was not a complacent door mat but a skilled courtesan in the French tradition?

This is an experiment in story-telling. It starts with the mother, Mary. She was from a well-known, and increasingly prominent family.