After a childhood spent on Hollywood film sets, Meghan Markle fought hard for stardom. But even when she landed her breakthrough role on Suits, her dream of worldwide celebrity remained elusive until she met the man who would change her life--Prince Harry. Their whirlwind romance culminated with Meghan's ultimate fairy tale ending: their 2018 wedding at Windsor Castle. Finally, the world was her stage. It seemed that the dizzying success of the wedding between the new Duke and Duchess of Sussex marked the beginning of a fresh era for the British Royal Family. Yet, within one tumultuous year, the dream became a nightmare. Now, with extensive research and exclusive insider interviews, Britain's leading investigative biographer unravels the tangled web of courtroom drama, courtier politics, and thwarted childhood dreams to reveal this story of love, betrayal, secrets, deceit, and revenge.

On February 12, 1994, probably in her eighty-fourth year, the woman known as Anna Anderson died in Charlottesville, Virginia. Was she, as she claimed, the youngest daughter of the last Tsar, or was she a former Polish factory worker who, miraculously, had intimate knowledge of the royal family's activities? The fate of Anastasia and that of the entire Russian Imperial family is still shrouded in mystery, even after the confirmation in 1993 of the discovery of their remains in a pit near Ekaterinburg in the Urals. The many reports out of Russia concur that two of the royal children were missing from the grave, but do not agree on their identity. The cover-ups and contradictory statements by earlier Communist regimes have further clouded the Romanovs' untimely end. Even the house where the family was executed was destroyed on the orders of Boris Yeltsin. John Klier untangles the strands of the Romanov mysteries, separating unpalatable truths from tactical, political lies. Fluent in Russian and an expert in Russian history and archival materials, he has traveled to Russia, the United States, and Western Europe in search of the lost Romanovs.

In Iron Age Ireland, Maeve, the fierce, willful youngest daughter of King Eochu of Connacht, is caught in a web of lies after rebelling to avoid fosterage with another highborn family and an arranged marriage.

Maeve begins her royal fosterage but her new companions are full of secrets and jealousy, her only friends are an elderly lady-in-waiting and Kian, the prince who rescued her kestrel, Ea, and her future promises only household management and childbearing until someone from her past brings a message about her true love.