The first few sentences had you back to the Tudor times you can imagine the smells, sounds atmosphere. You quickly learn the fate of a character, and then you're led on in the next chapter to learn about the lives of the obviously main characters. The normality of their life, and that of the city around them. Then within a few lines it's all turned upside down.immediately you find hes been taken to be charged, and then you need to find out , will he be taken to the tower?, will he be released?who put the accusation in? What is the tale behind that too?