The Midnight of Eights

1580.

Nelan Michaels docks at Plymouth after sailing around the world aboard the Golden Hind. He seeks only to master his mystical powers - the mark of the salamander, that mysterious spirit of fire - and reunite with his beloved Eleanor.

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.

But in 1588, the Spanish Armada threatens England-s shores.

So how could the fledgling navy of a small, misty isle on the edge of mainland Europe repulse the greatest fleet in the world?

Was the Queen right when she claimed it was divine intervention, saying, -He blew with His winds, and they were scattered!-?

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?