In the first novel in a new historical series set in Moorish Spain, Joan Fallon sets the action in the busy medieval port of M laga. Following on from the successful al-Andalus series, we meet up again with the younger members of the family who had escaped from the besieged city of C rdoba. Makoud, now a middle-aged apothecary, has come to M laga with his family to work. Shortly after they arrive they hear of the sudden death of the caliph,...