At the end of <i>The King’s Witch</i>, the first book in Tracy Borman’s Stuart-era trilogy, Frances Gorges was pregnant with the child of her dead lover, Thomas Wintour, executed for his role as a conspirator in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. Now, in <i>The Devil’s Slave</i>, Frances is compelled to return to the dissolute and dangerous court where she has been suspected of witchcraft.<p>Catholics have gone underground in the new Puritan regime of King James I, and yet...
