Who was Shakespeare's dark lady? How were his sonnets published without his permission--and, why? And how did he and the dark lady navigate the perils and paranoia of the fractious and divisive early 17th Century? This novel offers a glimpse into the conflicts and complexities behind Shakespeare's sonnet masterpiece. Shakespeare has renewed his affair with Amelia Lanyer, the dark lady of his sonnet sequence, a liaison started a decade earlier;...