The Wicked Skill

<p>In this fantasy of manners we have two displaced young kings one shopkeeper's daughter who went away an ugly duckling and returns five years later a beautiful and highly skilled swan and a young queen who is master of all she surveys . . . until she isn't. The result is the last summer of love and adventure on the eve of cataclysm.</p><p><br></p><p><em>The Wicked Skill</em> from a poem by John Donne duels and dances with discovery of the many facets of love-set against a background of revolution one conducted through manners the other by swashbuckling youths who think life is a game . . .</p><p><br></p>