Warning for minor spoilers to Shadow of Night
In the previous story, Unpathed Waters, Diana struggled to find the best way to ensure Jack's future. From the beginning, she and Matthew understood it would be impossible to take him back to their world with them. As their departure date drew near, finding a secure haven for the child they'd grown to view as their adopted son became an increasing concern.
Toward the end of the second novel, Shadow of Night, readers learned that Matthew arranged for the Earl of Northumberland and Tom Harriot to be Jack's guardians, but Deborah Harkness didn't provide any details about what the guardianship entailed. In addition, Diana entered into a secret pact with Andrew Hubbard for him to extend his protection to the boy in exchange for a drop of her blood. Because of that single drop, Hubbard now knows her true name is Diana Bishop.
In Adrift, I had the chance to imagine how those measures worked out. This is my first story to be set in the period between the end of Shadow of Night and the beginning of the third novel, The Book of Life. The author provided a few tidbits about what happened to Jack in the intervening years, and I used those to weave a possible account. I'm attempting to keep the tales true to canon and hope to eventually take them up through The Book of Life and perhaps beyond. Although Diana won't appear in them for a while, she has a major role to play. Many of the other canon characters will also be featured, including Matthew's father, Philippe.
Deborah Harkness's works are filled with strong female characters, and I'd like to reflect that tradition in my stories. Among the canon women who have signed up are the witches Susanna Norman and Goody Alsop, Philippe's wife Ysabeau, Matthew's servant Françoise, and Philippe's daughter Fanny (also known as Freyja). The cast will be supplemented with original characters. In Adrift, you'll meet the first of them—Bryn Walbrook. Like Leonard Shoreditch and Jack Blackfriars, Bryn's surname is based on a location in central London. Walbrook is one of London's "lost" rivers. By Elizabethan times, it had already been covered over. Its name was given to a street east of St. Paul's Cathedral and a city ward.
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