Christopher Marlowe tackles his most baffling case yet.June, 1589. Now a feted poet and playwright, Kit Marlowe is visiting his family in Canterbury. But it’s not the happy homecoming he had hoped for. A long-standing family friend has been found dead in her bed, killed by several blows to the head. Convinced that the wrong person has been found guilty of the crime, Marlowe determines to uncover the truth.What did the dead woman mean when she spoke of ‘owning the whole world’? If Marlowe could discover what she had in her possession, he would be one step closer to catching her killer. And why is the Queen’s spymaster, Sir Francis Walsingham, taking such an interest in the investigation?

Brothers Humfrey and Roger Jolland visit the Medleys of Mantlemass as the Spanish Armada heads for England and war looms, and treasonous acts soon plague the country.

The future Bard of Avon, Will Shakespeare, while carousing with his friends, wooing women, and sneaking off to see plays, finds himself torn between two women--Anne Whateley, with whom his best friend is in love, and Anne Hathaway, with whom he has had romantic entanglements.

Brothers Humfrey and Roger Jolland visit the Medleys of Mantlemass as the Spanish Armada heads for England and war looms, and treasonous acts soon plague the country.