The Midnight of Eights
1580 - Nelan Michaels docks at Plymouth after sailing around the world aboard the Golden Hind. He seeks only to master his mystical powers – the mark of the salamander, that mysterious spirit of fire – and reunite with his beloved Eleanor. After delivering a message to Francis Walsingham, he's recruited into the service of the Queen's spymaster, where his astral abilities help him to predict and thwart future plots against the realm.
But in 1588, the Spanish Armada threatens England's shores. So how could the fledgling navy of a small, misty isle on the edge of mainland Europe repulse the greatest fleet in the world? Was the Queen right when she claimed it was divine intervention, saying, 'He blew with His winds, and they were scattered!? Or was it an entirely different intervention – the extraordinary conjunction of coincidences that Nelan's astral powers brought to bear on that fateful Midnight of Eights?
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I’ve long anticipated the sequel to The Mark of the Salamander and so enjoyed meeting up again with Nelan Michaels in The Midnight of Eights.
Nelan leaves the Golden Hind and happily marries his beloved Eleanor, but still yearns to master his mystical skills of the mark of the salamander. But then he is forced to spy for none other than Francis Walsingham, the Queen’s spymaster. But after his mentor, Dr John Dee, leaves the country in haste, Nelan is compelled to walk a wary path. His visions become crucial to the battle against the Spanish Armada who seek to conquer England.