Today I’m delighted to be sharing an excerpt from Elizabeth St.John’s novel The Lady of the Tower as part of a blog tour hosted by The Coffee Pot Book Club. The Lady of the Tower is the first book in Elizabeth’s series The Lydiard Chronicles, a historical family saga which traces the lives of several remarkable women of the St.John family during the seventeenth century.

Duty, passion, and power collide in The Lydiard Chronicles, a gripping trilogy inspired by true events. Foll...