Summer of Our Lord 1601st. The Tuscan War rages across the world, and everything from Navarre to Illyria is involved in the bloodbath. Guns roar, steel clangs, witches stalk through the night, and even the court of the king of fairies and elves is on the verge of chaos. By the end of this war, five stories come together - about the brave Miranda and the prankster Puck, about the witch Pomona and her captive Vertumnus, about the gentle Lucia and the ghost of the wizard Prospero, about the noble Don Pedro and the powerful Elena, and, finally, about Anne, the wife of the modest glover - heroes and lovers on whom the world rests. Stories that immerse us in the world of Shakespeare's plays. Stories he never told, but could easily tell.