1593. Queen Elizabeths trusted spymaster Walsingham has been dead for two years... As plague sweeps through the streets & stews of London so suspicion & mistrust sweep through the court & government. No one feels safe. Even the celebrated swordsman adventurer & philanderer Will Swyfte must watch his back. It is when his best friend & colleague the playwright Christopher Marlowe is killed in a pub brawl that Will decides he must act. The murder has all the hallmarks of an assassination. But in going in search of Kits killer he discovers that there are those in positions of power & influence who are not what they seem... Against a backcloth of growing paranoia & terror Will detects the malign machinations of Englands hidden enemy the Unseelie Court. With these devils at his back the countrys greatest spy may find that even his vaunted skills are no match for the supernatural powers arrayed against him. The choice is simple: uncover the true nature & intention of this vile conspiracy
- or face the executioners axe...