The Midnight of Eights

<p>1580.</p><p>Nelan Michaels docks at Plymouth after sailing around the world aboard the <em>Golden Hind</em>. He seeks only to master his mystical powers ¿ the mark of the salamander, that mysterious spirit of fire ¿ and reunite with his beloved Eleanor.</p><p>After delivering a message to Francis Walsingham, he¿s recruited into the service of the Queen¿s spymaster, where his astral abilities help him to predict and thwart future plots against the realm.</p><p>But in 1588, the Spanish Armada threatens England¿s shores.</p><p>So how could the fledgling navy of a small, misty isle on the edge of mainland Europe repulse the greatest fleet in the world?</p><p>Was the Queen right when she claimed it was divine intervention, saying, ¿He blew with His winds, and they were scattered!¿?</p><p>Or was it an entirely different intervention ¿ the extraordinary conjunction of coincidences that Nelan¿s astral powers brought to bear on that fateful Midnight of Eights?</p>