MASTER OF THE REVELS

Picking up where The Rise and Fall of D.O.D. O. left off, Tristan Lyons, Melisande Stokes, and their fellow outcasts from the Department of Diachronic Operations (D.O.D.O.) must fight to stop the powerful Irish witch Gráinne from using time travel to reverse the evolution of all modern technology.

Chief among Gráinne’s plots: to encrypt cataclysmic spells into Shakespeare’s “cursed” play, Macbeth. When her fellow rogue agents fall victim to Gráinne’s schemes, Mel Stokes is forced to send Tristan’s untested, wayward sister Robin back in time to 1606 London, where Edmund Tilney, the king’s Master of the Revels, controls all staged performances in London.

And now Gráinne controls Tilney.

While Robin poses as an apprentice in Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, Mel travels to the ancient Roman Empire and, with the help of double-agent Chira in Renaissance Florence, untangles the knotted threads of history while the diabolical Gráinne jumps from timeline to timeline, always staying frustratingly one step ahead—or is it behind?

Historical objects disappear, cities literally rise and fall, and nothing less than the fate of humanity is at stake. As Gráinne sows chaos across time and space, the ragtag team of ex-D.O.D.O. agents must fix the past to save the future.

Critically acclaimed author Nicole Galland brings her deep knowledge of history and her signature wit to this enthralling, romantic adventure—a spellbinding tale traversing time and space, fact and fiction, magic and science—that offers a fresh and fun look at the past and the creation of the world we know today. 

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