Stap in het 17e-eeuwse Engeland, een rijk van politieke onrust en persoonlijk gevaar. Deze serie volgt een vastberaden vrouw die vecht tegen verraad en onrecht om haar familie en geboorterecht te beschermen. Met rijke historische details en meeslepende spanning tonen deze verhalen veerkracht en moed tegenover overweldigende tegenslagen. Bereid je voor op verhalen over overleven, verzet en de blijvende kracht van de menselijke geest.
Four years after Charles II is restored to the throne, Mercia Blakewood stands to lose everything: her father to the executioner's axe, her freedom to her treacherous uncle, her son to his resentful grandparents. But when her father leaves her a cryptic message in his last speech, she seizes her chance to fight back.
Curiosity piqued by beautiful New England and friendship with a medicine woman growing, Mercia Blakewood decides to delay her return home. Navigating a new landscape and the uneasy relationship between Puritan settlers and native tribes is complex but when the forests are tainted by murder Mercia will not rest until the killer is brought to justice
May 1665. Mercia Blakewood is headed back to England, hoping to leave behind the shadow of death and heartache. With the country now at war with the Dutch, the Crown has decided that Mercia is an asset to be used once again. She must accept a clandestine role at the heart of the glittering and debauched royal court to unmask a spy and traitor.