The Shadow King

Sequel to The Winter QueenA New York Times Editor's ChoiceSet in seventeenth-century Holland, Restoration London, and Barbados, this is the second volume of Jane Stevenson's masterly historical trilogy. The Winter Queen, the acclaimed first volume, told of the mature passion of Elizabeth of Bohemia and her clandestine lover, an African prince and former slave. Now Balthasar Stuart, the secret child born of their love, struggles to come to terms with his rich, difficult, and complex heritage.