Heresy Of Dr Dee

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All talk is of the End-time...and the dead are rising. At the end of the sunless summer of 1560 black rumour shrouds the death of the one woman who stands between Lord Robert Dudley & marriage to the young Queen Elizabeth. Did Dudleys wife Amy die from an accidental fall in a deserted house or was it a calculated murder? Even Dr John Dee astrologer royal adviser on the Hidden & one of Dudleys oldest friends is uncertain. Then a rash promise to the Queen sends him to his familys old home on the Welsh Border in pursuit of the Wigmore Shewstone a crystal credited supernatural properties. With Dee goes Robert Dudley considered the most hated man in Engl&. They travel with the entourage of a London judge sent to try a sinister Welsh brigand with a legacy dating back to the Battle of Brynglas in which close to a thousand Englishmen died at the hands of the Welsh. After the battle many of the bodies were according to legend obscenely mutilated. Now on the same haunted hill another dead man has been found similarly slashed. Devious politics small-town corruption twisted religion & a brooding superstition leave John Dee isolated in the land of his father...