Amy's life was influenced by the affairs of state from the moment she fell in love and married Robert Dudley. Hardship came when her sister-in-law, Jane Grey was deposed and Mary came to the throne; the Dudley brothers were imprisoned in the tower. When Elizabeth ascended the throne, Amy hoped for peace and contentment with her beloved husband. But it was not to be, for the young queen made Robert Dudley her favorite and changed the course of many lives.
Katie Flynn was born in Norwich and attended Norwich High School, where she was extremely happy and extremely undistinguished. Published at the tender age of eight, in Enid Blyton's Sunny Stories, she joined a Writers’ Circle as an adult, publishing short stories, articles, etc; only turning to novels in 1971 because the postal strike cut off her main source of income! At first she wrote under several different names – Judith Saxton, Judy Turner, Lydia Balmain, Judith Arden – but her Katie Flynn books were a delight to write and proved far more popular than she had dreamed. She has now published nearly ninety novels, twenty-seven of which are Flynns. Her most recent titles are: Lost Days of Summer and Christmas Wishes.