Book description
It is 1560, and Elizabeth Tudor has been on the throne for a year.
Dr John Dee, at 32 already acclaimed throughout Europe, is her
astrologer and consultant in the hidden arts... a controversial
appointment in these days of superstition and religious strife. Now
the mild, bookish Dee has been sent to Glastonbury to find the missing
bones of King Arthur, whose legacy was always so important to the
Tudor line. With him - hardly the safest companion - is his friend and
former student, Robert Dudley, a risk-taker, a wild card... and
possibly the Queen's secret lover. The famously mystical town is still
mourning the gruesome execution of its Abbot, Richard Whiting. But why
was the Abbot really killed? What is the secret held by the monks
since the Abbey was founded by Joseph of Arimathea, uncle of Christ
and guardian of the Holy Grail? The mission takes Dee to the tangled
roots of English magic, into unexpected violence, necromantic
darkness, the breathless stirring of first love... and the cold heart
of a complex plot against Elizabeth.
