A beautiful actress, a conservative lawyer, a mother with a history and an eccentric dramatic manager are thrown together to produce a play. Can Abigail Lake direct the play and her lawyer while keeping her fragile mother from being destroyed? There are triumphs, laughs and tragedies on the way to The Princess Players finding strength in themselves and each other.

A fifteen-year-old journeyman wizard needs all the magic he has thus far learned when he and his companion Lys are drawn into the political problems of a good and powerful prince.

Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.

London, late 1500's. An aging Queen "Bess" Tudor is on the throne. William Shakespeare and his "common players" hold sway outside the city walls but, within the city the Children of the Chapel Royal cause them concern ...