Stap in de schaduwwereld van het elisabethaanse Engeland, waar eeuwenoude geheimen en krachtige artefacten het rijk bedreigen. Deze serie dompelt je onder in een spannend avontuur vol spionage, magie en een race tegen de klok om catastrofale gebeurtenissen te voorkomen. Het combineert meesterlijk historische intriges met fantastische elementen, wat resulteert in een meeslepende vertelling voor liefhebbers van avontuur en mysterie.
1588: The London of Elizabeth I is rocked by news of a daring raid on the Tower. The truth is known only to a select few: that, for twenty years, a legendary doomsday device, its power fabled for millennia, has been kept secret and, until now, safe in the Tower. But it has been stolen and Walsingham's spies believe it has been taken by the enemy.
But in going in search of Kit's killer, he discovers that there are those in positions of power and influence who are not what they seem... With these devils at his back, the country's greatest spy may find that even his vaunted skills are no match for the supernatural powers arrayed against him.
1593: The dreaded alchemist, black magician and spy Dr John Dee is missing...Fear sweeps through the court of Queen Elizabeth, for in Dee's possession is an obsidian mirror, an object of great power which legend says could set the world afire.