Finished reading on 3/2/09:

ROANOKE: A NOVEL OF ELIZABETHAN INTRIGUE by Margaret Lawrence, 2009.

Lawrence has created a very plausible and interesting story around Sir Walter Ralegh's Roanoke Island expeditions and the "Lost Colony". Involving two spies (or spiders), Gabriel North and Robert Mowbray, she weaves a tale of intrigue, assassination plots against the Queen, treacherous characters, romance, savagery, and great spirit. Well drawn characters, including Queen Elizabeth herself, Robert Cecil, Walter Ralegh, Lord Burleigh, the fictional Indian queen Naia, and others, both real and imagined, who went out to Roanoke and disappeared. A good read, historically accurate in details, and thought provoking concerning the fate of the lost colonists.