A complete collection of thrilling travel around Europe in the 16th century.
England. The middle of the 16th century.
The time of the accession to the throne of the great Queen Elizabeth I, who received England poor and torn by endless dynastic strife—and turned it into the first power in Europe.
But the splendid Elizabethan “golden age” is still far away. Almost all European countries stand against the young Protestant monarch—especially France, which wants to place its own protégé, a Catholic Mary Stuart, on the English throne.
Such is the difficult era in which a young man and a girl from the northern town of Kingsbridge—famous for its legendary cathedral, a town now divided and torn apart by ruthless hatred between Protestants and Catholics—must live. And this enmity may forever separate Marjorie FitzGerald, whose family supports Mary Stuart both with words and deeds, and Ned Willard, whose fate leads him “into the secret service of her Majesty,” into the ranks of the legendary spies of Queen Elizabeth…
Ken Follett’s sweeping historical saga continues!