“I’d give anything for a good horse right now…” says young Will Shakespeare.

When Will gets mixed up in poaching, his father sends him away from Stratford in a band of travelling actors. On the outskirts of London, a fierce storm forces them to take refuge at the house of Doctor Dee – Queen Elizabeth I's astrologer. While there, they get caught up in a plot involving piracy, "magic" and the secret of the "Devil's Fire".

Another compulsive “it could really have happened!” adventure by the author of Leonardo and the Death Machine.