London in the time of Queen Elizabeth We is a bustling place, its streets packed with vendors selling goods from all over the world. In the courtyard of St. Paul’s Cathedral, Alice Hardwood competes with other booksellers, hawking pamphlets, performs, and the most recent poetry from the continent. It is a lonely life for the hardworking youthful widow, and she will soon put it aside. When a black-clad stranger visits, speaking in riddles and asking questions about her long-vanished kid, Alice will be attracted into an experience straight out of 1 of her faerie tales.

The Elizabethan court continues to be infiltrated by the Good Folk, a race of magical beings whose intentions are shadowy and dangerous. By using Christopher Marlowe, the city’s most dashing playwright, Alice must untangle the faerie conspiracy to save lots of her son-and the crown.