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Published by Regalo Press
Distributed by Simon & Schuster
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About The Book
Self-made billionaire Dakota Wynfred is convinced that the only way to save American democracy is by putting the last Tudor Queen in the Oval Office.
Dakota Wynfred will stop at nothing to prevent the reelection of the vile US president, Robert Vlakas, who wants to nationalize her cybersecurity company and simultaneously set fire to the Constitution. And that includes finding a champion who can defeat him in the 2028 presidential election.
But it won’t be easy because Dakota’s champion of choice—though brilliant, politically savvy, charming, and tough enough to survive multiple assassination attempts—happens to have been dead for over 400 years.
So, what if Queen Elizabeth I has never heard of electricity, Netflix, or Uber?
Dakota’s team of experts travel back in time to try to convince Elizabeth to leap more than four centuries into the future to embark on a quest to become the greatest woman ruler in history…again.
Dakota Wynfred will stop at nothing to prevent the reelection of the vile US president, Robert Vlakas, who wants to nationalize her cybersecurity company and simultaneously set fire to the Constitution. And that includes finding a champion who can defeat him in the 2028 presidential election.
But it won’t be easy because Dakota’s champion of choice—though brilliant, politically savvy, charming, and tough enough to survive multiple assassination attempts—happens to have been dead for over 400 years.
So, what if Queen Elizabeth I has never heard of electricity, Netflix, or Uber?
Dakota’s team of experts travel back in time to try to convince Elizabeth to leap more than four centuries into the future to embark on a quest to become the greatest woman ruler in history…again.
About The Author
Maria Vetrano tried to save the whales when she was nine years old. It didn’t quite work. But that didn’t quell her desire to ease some of the world’s ills in some small way, even if only through fiction. She is the mother of one young adult daughter and currently lives with her wife and animal family in Massachusetts. When she’s not writing, Maria is the principal of Vetrano Communications, the PR and marketing firm she founded in 2004 that specializes in tech clientele. Maria is also a lounge singer who’s entertained audiences in Boston, Cambridge, and Provincetown. Along with her wife, she created Against the Tide, a fundraising event to fight breast cancer. She is a graduate of Colgate University with a BA in English literature.
Product Details
- Publisher: Regalo Press (December 18, 2024)
- Length: 336 pages
- ISBN13: 9798888456897
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Raves and Reviews
“Queen Bess is a completely novel concept blending cybersecurity, feminism, Elizabethan Tudor history, time travel, politics, and found family! As a cybersecurity professional I appreciated the nods to the many threats to the free world from nefarious cyber actors, and the role of the fabulous female billionaire protagonist in fighting them, and the call to ‘old school’ leadership qualities as key to fixing our modern world. Hugely enjoyable!”
– Cynthia Wright, Cybersecurity Consultant
“Creative, timely and thoroughly original, Queen Bess imagines a world in which time travel allows a billionaire with a conscience to convince Queen Elizabeth I that she should journey to the 21stcentury, so she can run for president in 2028. Cultural complications aside, what a great idea! Wonderfully entertaining and hopeful.”
– Ellen Jarrett, Co-owner of Porter Square Books
“This genre-bending novel had me at the premise: with time travel rendered safe and possible, a tough, lovable female cybersecurity-billionaire protagonist plots a mission to bring Queen Elizabeth I to 2027, grooming her to take the US Presidency from a tyrannical tycoon in the following year’s election. But, with this candidate—astounding ruler as she was—who needs explanations for airplanes, iPhones, and half-caff coffees, can Dakota’s wild plan succeed? Part speculative, part historical, and all delightful, this time travel story for the ages (pun intended!) never fails to surprise and delight.”
– Liza Monroy, Author of The Distractions
“With deft storytelling, novelist Maria Vetrano beckons us to suspend our skepticism about time travel as she transports us into Tudor England, and then, in the delightful company of the time-traveled Queen Elizabeth, aka ‘Bess,’ she sweeps us into the swirl of our 2027 presidential campaign. Queen Bess is playful and thought-provoking, and I especially love that she set this story in my home city of Cambridge, Mass.”
– Melissa Ludtke, Author of Locker Room Talk: A Woman’s Struggle to Get Inside
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