Ball, Margaret

Ellen Ainsley has given up singing sixteenth century music, until a strange young man persuades her to fly to England to perform a masque composed by Wicked Kit Arundel in 1594. Ellen does not know what happened at the original performance or the consequences of performing it on its 400th anniversary.

Eleanor, the daughter of the duke of Aquitaine, becomes leader of one of the richest dukedoms in twelfth-century France after her father's death, and devises a scheme to marry the heir of the throne of France in order to protect her lands and her life.

Tamai Flameweaver, a woman who has the power to create magic, is sent on a mission with British explorer Charles Carrington to infiltrate the forbidden Chin empire. Along the way they are hindered by winter storms, corrupt monks, shifting time lines, and the demon yush.