Warnke, a time traveler who has visited the moment of a past death more than once, comes to
the house of Lady Amy Dudley née Robsart) on the eve that she is fated to fall down the
stairs in an accident that her husband, Robert Dudley (an accused but reprieved conspirator
in the taking of the English throne by Jane Grey) will be suspected of arranging so that he
would be free to marry Elizabeth I.
I’m not a seer. I’m a. . . traveler. From one time to
another. Do you understand? I know when you’ll die, and where, and how, because it’s
all written down in a history book.