Gallery Books
August 2015
On Sale: July 21, 2015
Featuring: Roger Ascham; Elizabeth Tudor
320 pages ISBN: 147674954X EAN: 9781476749549 Kindle: B00QNW8KOW Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
From the New York Times bestselling author of Temple and The
Great Zoo of China comes a gripping historical thriller
featuring a young Queen Elizabeth I thrust into a web of
treachery, power, and lust at the height of the Ottoman Empire.
The year is 1546, and Suleiman the Magnificent, the powerful
and feared Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, issues an
invitation to every king in Europe: You are invited to send
your finest player to compete in a chess tournament to
determine the champion of the known world.
Thousands converge on Constantinople, including the English
court’s champion and his guide, the esteemed scholar Roger
Ascham. Seeing a chance to enlighten the mind of a student,
Ascham brings along Elizabeth Tudor, a brilliant young woman
not yet thrust into royal duties.
Yet on the opening night of the tournament a powerful guest
of the Sultan is murdered. Soon, barbaric deaths, diplomatic
treachery, and unimaginable depravity—sexual and
otherwise—unfold before Elizabeth and Ascham’s eyes. The
pair soon realizes that the real chess game is being played
within the court itself…and its most treacherous element is
that a stranger in a strange land is only as safe as her
host is gracious.
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