St Andrews, 1583. The young king James VI is confined at Falkland palace, plotting his escape. Dissension rages between Kirk and Crown, the king and his 'lord enterprisers', and between the separate factions of the church. In St Andrews Castle, a bishop in decline plays out his darkest fantasies, while Hew and his friend Giles investigate the true source of his sickness, uncovering corruption at its heart. The death of a young soldier, implicating Hew's sister and Giles's wife Meg, leads Hew to an astonishing discovery, and towards his blackest hour, his fortunes inextricable from those of James himself. Real historical figures interwoven in this fantastical tale are James VI, the bastard son of James V, spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham and Alison Pearson who was executed for witchcraft in 1588.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication page
- Contents
- Prefatory Note
- Chapter 1 A Merry Month
- Chapter 2 The Physick Wife
- Chapter 3 First Light
- Chapter 4 Mary’s Thorn
- Chapter 5 The Seeing Stone
- Chapter 6 A Box of Tricks
- Chapter 7 A Rare Roast Egg
- Chapter 8 The Abbot of Unrest
- Chapter 9 Set in Stone
- Chapter 10 Men at Work
- Chapter 11 Between the Tides
- Chapter 12 The Draucht- Raker
- Chapter 13 Old Haunts
- Chapter 14 An Uncommon Kindness
- Chapter 15 Clare
- Chapter 16 Stirring the Pot
- Chapter 17 Trials of the Heart
- Chapter 18 A Bright Bird Flown
- Chapter 19 Home Truths
- Chapter 20 The Castle on the Cliff
- Chapter 21 The Master of Requests
- Chapter 22 The Still House
- Chapter 23 A Wicked and a Guileful Mouth
- Chapter 24 High Water
- Chapter 25 Private Lives
- Chapter 26 Friend and Foe
- Historical Note The Ruthven Raid
- Characters
- Glossary of Old Scots words
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