The Merchant of Dreams

Description:

Book Two of the Night's Masque series, sequel to The Alchemist of Souls Exiled from the court of Queen Elizabeth for accusing a powerful nobleman of treason, swordsman-turned-spy Mal Catlyn has been living in France with his young valet Coby Hendricks for the past year. But Mal harbours a darker secret: he and his twin brother share a soul that once belonged to a skrayling, one of the mystical creatures from the New World. When Mal’s dream about a skrayling shipwreck in the Mediterranean proves reality, it sets him on a path to the beautiful, treacherous city of Venice – and a conflict of loyalties that will place him and his friends in greater danger than ever.

subjects: alternate reality,  magic,  Fiction, fantasy, general,  Social life and customs,  Assassins,  Magic,  Secrets,  Fiction,  Imaginary societies,  Twins,  Bodyguards

Places: Venice,  London,  Provence

Times: alternate Elizabethan period