1558: Twelve children, gifted far beyond their years, are banished by their Tudor queen to the town of Rotherweird.
Some say they are the golden generation; some say the devil's spawn.
But everyone knows they are something to be reveredand feared.
Four and a half centuries on, cast adrift from the rest of England by Elizabeth I and still bound by its ancient laws, Rotherweird's independence is subject to one disturbing condition: nobody, but nobody, studies the town or its history.
Then an Outsider arrives, a man of unparallelled wealth and power, enough to buy the whole of Rotherweirddeeply buried secrets and all .
1558 | Twelve children gifted far beyond their years are banished by their |
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Rotherweird's independence is subject to one disturbing condition | Nobody but nobody studies the town or its historythen an |