When an enemy threatens to reveal his affair with Meg, the wife of a wealthy merchant, Tom is forced to flee to London. For a while his future in the burgeoning world of Elizabethan theatre looks bright but then the past catches up with him. His mentor and friend, Alexandre Lamotte, vows to help him but Lamotte has dark secrets of his own to hide. Meanwhile Meg has set out on a path that will test her mettle to the limit. A story of illicit love, adventure and intrigue set in the turbulent reign of Queen Elizabeth I.