Dark Sweet Wanton — Sheila Lancaster

Tells the story of Mary Fytton, the woman believed to be the Dark Lady of Shakespeare's sonnets, as the unhappy daughter of a Cheshire squire, as lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth, and in later disgrace and exile.

MARY FYTTON - she was the charmed favorite of Elizabeth I... the raven-haired beauty worshiped by William Shakespeare. Yet "Mall" longed for tenderness and love - in a palace where an aging queen had outlawed desire.

WILLIAM HERBERT - The future Earl of Pembroke. Mall was his challenge, his cruel heart's prize.

RICHARD LEVESON - Daring sea captain and polished courtier be was Mail's beloved cousin. Chained in marriage to a madwoman, he hungered for the young girl be bad known all his life.