Deze serie duikt in een fascinerende wereld waar geschiedenis botst met het bovennatuurlijke. Afspelend tegen de achtergrond van het elisabethaanse Engeland, komen mysterieuze wezens uit overzeese gebieden, die niet alleen nieuwe culturen, maar ook verborgen gevaren met zich meebrengen. Volg de lotgevallen van helden die verstrikt raken in intriges, machtsstrijden en confrontaties met onbekende krachten die het bestaan van hun wereld zelf zouden kunnen bedreigen.
When Tudor explorers returned from the New World, they brought back a name out of half-forgotten Viking legend: skraylings. Red-sailed ships followed in the explorers' wake, bringing Native American goods--and a skrayling ambassador-- to London. But what do these seemingly magical beings really want in Elizabeth I's capital?
There has been a rift with the skraylings over the presence of renegade skraylings who have deliberately reincarnated in humans in England. Rumour has it that skrayling vessels have been spotted in the eastern Mediterranean in increasing numbers, fuelling suspicions of dealings with Venice.
Elizabethan spy Mal Catlyn has everything he ever wanted - his twin brother restored to health, his family estate reclaimed, a wife and child, even a knighthood - but his work isn't over yet. The guisers still rule England from the shadows, and now Mal knows the extent of their powers he cannot rest until he sees them destroyed.