Tato série zavádí čtenáře do alžbětinské Anglie, kde se mladá služebná Lucy stává nečekaně součástí světa magie a intrik. Pracuje v domácnosti samotného Dr. Dee, osobního astrologa a kouzelníka královny Alžběty. Když Lucy narazí na strašlivé tajemství, které ohrožuje samotnou korunu, je vtažena do nebezpečného spiknutí. Její odvážná cesta odhaluje temná tajemství a ukazuje, jak se obyčejný člověk může zaplést do osudových událostí, které ovlivňují celé království.
A poor runaway during the Elizabethan period, Lucy does not have many options. Her luck turns around when she is taken on as a maid in the household of Dr. Dee, a real-life figure who was court magician to Queen Elizabeth I.The household is strange and sinister, and Lucy has a nose for intrigue. So when she stumbled across a plot to assassinate the queen, Lucy must find means to warn her . . . before it's too late.
Lucy has become a firm fixture in the household of Dr Dee, a real-life figure who was court magician to Queen Elizabeth 1. Lucy, in return for saving the queen's life, has been told that she is to work as a spy for Her Grace and that she is to remain with the Dee family and await further instruction ...And then Lucy hears unexplained cries in the Dee house, and finds a young girl imprisoned there. What is Dr Dee doing? Lucy means to find out. This is a thrilling historical story, full of intrigue and royal plots and counter-plots, from the acclaimed Mary Hooper.
The concluding volume to the two popular novels by Mary Hooper, At the House of the Magician and By Royal Command