In book two of the Ancestry of Sorcery series, a teenage Elizabeth Tudor continues her budding romance with her childhood friend Robert Dudley. Together they face love and heartache so intense it shakes the foundations of their faith and has Elizabeth almost forgetting her ancestral ambition for the crown. Through the struggles of war, imprisonment, arranged marriages and assaults to her character, Elizabeth must use her genius and her magic to protect herself and her loved ones and to outwit those who mean to steal her future.