Book description
Meg Lytton has always known of her dark and powerful gift. Raised a
student of the old magick by her Aunt Jane, casting the circle to see
visions of the future and concocting spells from herbs and bones has
always been as natural to Meg as breathing. But there has never been a
more dangerous time to practise the craft, for it is 1554, and the
sentence for any woman branded a witch is hanging, or burning at the stake.
Sent to the ruined, isolated palace of Woodstock to serve the
disgraced Elizabeth, daughter of Henry VIII and half-sister of Queen
Mary, Meg discovers her skills are of interest to the outcast
princess, who is desperate to know if she will ever claim the throne.
But Meg's existence becomes more dangerous every day, with the
constant threat of exposure by the ruthless witchfinder Marcus Dent,
and the arrival of a young Spanish priest, Alejandro de Castillo, to
whom Meg is irresistibly drawn - despite their very different
attitudes to her secret.
Thrilling and fast-paced, this is the first unputdownable story in a
bewitching new series.
While studying Elizabethan playwrights at university, Victoria Lamb
always dreamt of writing a series of novels set in Tudor England. Now a
busy mother of five, she has finally achieved that ambition after many
years of research. Victoria lives in Warwickshire.
