The Ringed Castle

by Dorothy Dunnett

Book 5 in the The Lymond Chronicles series.

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After Constantinople, Lymond enters the service of Ivan the Terrible and helps organise the expanding Muscovite army. Philippa Somerville returns to Mary I’s England and investigates Lymond’s birth while their nominal marriage becomes increasingly difficult to treat as a legal convenience. A Russian embassy brings Lymond back to London, exposing both of them to court politics and a conspiracy built around the secret Philippa is uncovering.