1533-1603

Queen Elizabeth I, holding her people together in the midst of internal and international strife, finds her authority and her entire monarchy threatened when a private diary she kept as a young princess is stolen.

Examines the last fifteen years of the life and reign of England's Queen Elizabeth I.

Describes daily life in Elizabethan London, and focuses on rivers, main streets, buildings, gardens, foreigners, clothes, food, drink, sex, marriage, education, entertainment, crime, punishment, the poor, and religion.

To thwart their arch-enemy, Pendlesharp, and his misguided notion of changing history, schoolboy Jack Christie and his friend Angus travel back in time to foil a plot to assassinate Elizabeth I, meeting playwright Christopher Marlowe and a young actor named William Shakespeare along the way.