Nicholas Talbot is in flight: the Elizabethan gentleman-spy and entrepreneur must outwit his enemy Mowbray, recently escaped from the Tower, and ensure that playwright Christopher Marlowe, secretly returned from Europe, isn’t recognized by those who’ve long thought him dead. As Marlowe’s Hamlet debuts to rapturous applause, Nicholas’ world is in danger of collapse. Intrigue at the Scottish and Elizabethan courts makes his life ever-more perilous as he yearns to return to his wife Rosalyne, and his other love—the theatre.