Title: The Merchant of Dreams
Description: Book Two of the Night's Masque series, sequel to The Alchemist of Souls

Exiled from the court of Queen Elizabeth for accusing a powerful nobleman of treason, swordsman-turned-spy Mal Catlyn has been living in France with his young valet Coby Hendricks for the past year. But Mal harbours a darker secret: he and his twin brother share a soul that once belonged to a skrayling, one of the mystical creatures from the New World.

When Mal’s dream about a skrayling shipwreck in the Mediterranean proves reality, it sets him on a path to the beautiful, treacherous city of Venice – and a conflict of loyalties that will place him and his friends in greater danger than ever.
Subjects: alternate reality, magic, Fiction, fantasy, general, Social life and customs, Assassins, Magic, Secrets, Fiction, Imaginary societies, Twins, Bodyguards, Manners and customs
Places: Venice, London, Provence
Time periods: alternate Elizabethan period