. . "Second, the characters are one-dimensional, including the protagonist, the (still) Princess Elizabeth who, exiled in Hatfield at the command of her half-sister Queen Mary (Bloody Mary), receives a letter from a next of kin she thought to be long-lost finding in this way that she and her family, those of the Boleyn's branch, are in the sights of a killer who uses powerful poisons as a weapon." . .