Sea of Troubles

Nicholas Talbot is heartbroken - his family home burned to the ground and the love of his life married to another. In five short years he has gone from callow youth to adventurer - courier at large for Queen and country. But more than all this, his passion for the stage has made him the progenitor of the theatre's greatest ever conspiracy. Tucked away in Verona, Kit Marlowe - according to history a dead man, killed in a tavern brawl - continues to write his wondrous plays. Back in London they are put on under the name of Will Shakespeare, a travesty, but yet they are staged and the applause comes. To live without writing would be worse than death and hence in spiriting his plays away to London, Nick is Kit's saviour. A youth no longer, Nick is a father with responsibilities to many - Robert Cecil the spymaster, his courier colleagues, his family and household, and above all Kit: in this second outing the adventurer matures and begins to look for more in life