A review by jcwlib
The King's Daughter by Barbara Kyle

3.0

The King's Daughter focuses on the time right after Queen Mary comes to power and is trying to finalize her marriage to Prince Phillip of Spain. The heroine of this book is actually Honor's daughter Isabel. Isabel betrothed is helping the rebels lead by Wyatt against the Queen to bring Princess Elizabeth to power. Isabel is able to convince Wyatt that she can be a messenger from the French Ambassador to him. Her family's history with neighbors - the Greenvilles - ends up causing her mother to get critical injured and her father to be put in jail. While trying to rescue her father from jail, Isabel is forced to "pay" for his freedom by being violated by the head jailer. Of course this "payment" backfires and her father is transferred to another jail. While in jail Isabel meets Carlos - a Spanish mercenary - who she ends up freeing & hiring to help her find where her father was taken. Isabel is torn between helping the rebels and searching for her father with Carlos. As a fellow heretic that worked along side of her parents in the past threatens to expose her family's dark secrets, Isabel must find a way to get her parents to safety and still support her own beliefs.