I lay very still with all my senses telling me that I had gone mad The plague? Nobody's had the plague for centuries Nathan Field a talented young actor arrives at the newly rebuilt Globe Theatre in London to play Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream As rehearsals begin eerie echoes of the past begin to haunt Nat & he falls sick with a mysterious sickness When he wakes Nat finds himself in 1599 an actor at the original Globe
- & his co-star is none other than the King of Shadows himself William Shakespeare Nat's new life is full of excitement danger & the passionate friendship that he has longed for since the tragic death of his parents But why has he been sent to the past
- & is he trapped there forever?