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1575: Nelan Michaels is a young Flemish man fleeing religious persecution in the Spanish Netherlands. Settling in Mortlake outside London, he studies under Queen Elizabeth’s court astrologer, conjuring a bright future – until he’s wrongly accused of murder. Forced into the life of a fugitive, Nelan is dramatically pressed into the crew of the Golden Hind. Thrust into a strange new world on board Francis Drake’s vessel, Nelan sails the seas on a voyage to discover discovery itself. Encountering mutiny, ancient tribes and hoards of treasure, Nelan must explore and master his own mystical powers – including the Mark of the Salamander, the mysterious spirit of fire. The Mark of the Salamander is the first in The Island of Angels series: a two-book saga that tells the epic story and secret history of England’s coming of age during the Elizabethan era.

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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?

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