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Cat must design a Poultry House for the woman that the King loves most in all the world.<\/p>\n<p>Unbeknownst to all, at the heart of this lies a royal secret so explosive that it could not only rip apart England but change the entire face of Europe?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>From the No.1 bestselling author of\u00c2\u00a0<em>The Last Protector<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0and\u00c2\u00a0<em>The Ashes of London<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0comes the next book in the phenomenally successful series following James Marwood and Cat Lovett during the time of King Charles II.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[68],"product_tag":[69,531,27011],"class_list":{"0":"post-93450","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","5":"product_cat-general-fiction","6":"product_tag-historical-fiction","7":"product_tag-historical-mysteries","8":"product_tag-narrative-theme-politics","9":"pa_book_author-taylor-andrew","10":"pa_cover-paperback","11":"pa_dewey-823-92-edition23","12":"pa_edition-1st-paperback-ed","13":"pa_imprint-harpercollinspublishers","14":"pa_language-english","15":"pa_pages-11033","16":"pa_publisher-harpercollinspublishers","17":"pa_readership-general-trade-code-k","19":"first","20":"instock","21":"taxable","22":"shipping-taxable","23":"purchasable","24":"product-type-simple"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Royal Secret<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"From the No.1 bestselling author of\u00c2\u00a0The Last Protector\u00c2\u00a0and\u00c2\u00a0The Ashes of London\u00c2\u00a0comes the next book in the phenomenally successful series following James Marwood and Cat Lovett during the time of King Charles II.Over 1 Million Andrew Taylor Novels Sold!A Times Best Paperback of 2022Two young girls plot a murder by witchcraft. 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