The Conscience of the King Melanie Golding and well-rounded characters - what

and well-rounded characters - what more could you want from a thriller

That chaos is coming and only the strong will survive it

He's just trying to follow his heart

is living a quiet enough life in Geneva

and for a moment he represents everything that a life of freedom might offer

The Conscience of the King Melanie Golding and well-rounded characters - whatIt is 1612. Robert Cecil, Chief Secretary to King James I, is dying. Now the threat from the Catholics has decayed, the Puritan majority are gaining an increasing stranglehold over English society. Parliament is starting to flex its muscles against the King whose court drifts shamelessly towards decadence and corruption. And the great period of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama has ended with the abrupt retreat from public life of William Shakespeare.