Rotherweird - Rotherweird, Bk 1 Author:Andrew Caldecott, Sasha Laika (Illustrator) 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 revered -- and feared. — Four and a half centuries on, cast adrift from the rest of England by Elizabeth I and stil... more »l 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 Rotherweird -- deeply buried secrets and all . . .« less