About the book: 2024 / POWDER KEG. England has been unsettled since the Restoration. Memories of the bloody days of the civil war are still fresh. At this time, Richard, the son of Oliver Cromwell, who once inherited the title of Lord Protector - “Defender of the Kingdom,” secretly returns to England from voluntary exile. The consequences can be catastrophic... SECRET MISSION. The royal court is a hotbed of vice, treason and rebellion, and James Marwood, a government clerk, finds himself in the thick of things again. He must carry out a very delicate assignment in order to strengthen the position of the royalists, but he is caught in the crosshairs of his enemies, and now he is clearly threatened with death... A DANGEROUS SECRET. Marwood feels caught between two fires when his old friend, the daughter of the regicide Kat Lovett, turns to him for help. Remembering the past that binds them, he is unable to refuse her. The fact is that she once knew the Cromwells closely and she knows something very important about this family. So important that it could open both Marwood and Kat a direct path to the scaffold…