| Author/Contributor(s): | Beckett, Nick |
| Publisher: | Pegasus Crime |
| Date: | 4/6/2027 |
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| Condition: | NEW |
1595. An aging Sir Francis Drake sails from Plymouth, heading south on a doomed mission of plunder. It will end with his burial at sea off the coast of Panama—at least he'll be warm.
Back in England, semi-reformed thief Kate Mayfield and her uncle, the notorious astrological physician Simon Mayfield, are stuck in rain-lashed Devon. They're on the run from the law as a dismal summer turns into a turbulent autumn. Caught in a violent storm, they seek refuge at Dartwater Hall, a decaying manor house set in bleak moorlands. But death has followed them there.
When the master of the house dies in gruesome circumstances, they learn that a murderer is hiding in the shadows. Trapped and hunted, the two fugitives must solve a mystery with its roots deep in Tudor England's bloody past before they, too, become martyrs to their own, ignoble cause.