After eight hugely enjoyable and successful adventures, swashbuckling Elizabethan courtier and cousin to the Queen of England Sir Robert Carey has managed to keep his head – and other parts of his body he considers rather more important! Now, as 1593 begins, the Deputy Warden of the West March is riding from Edinburgh on the trail of a killer who has twice tried to assassinate King James VI of Scotland – the man who will succeed the Virgin Queen and unite two nations who have been at war for...
