When Marcus Corvinus is summoned by the Empress Livia he fears the worst. But Livia has a favor to ask—Marcus must investigate the death of her grandson, Germanicus, which will soon embroil Marcus in a multi-stranded web of betrayal and deceit.
A rich evocation of 1588 England follows the adventures of Arthur Dudley, the illegitimate child of Elizabeth I, who is presumed dead by his real parents and who only learns of his true identity at...