The Last Defender

GUNPOWDER BARREL. In England, after the Restoration, it is restless. The 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 Realm," secretly returns to England from voluntary exile. The consequences could be catastrophic... SECRET MISSION. The royal court is a hotbed of vice, treachery, and rebellion, and James Marwood, a clerk in government service, once again finds himself in the thick of events. He must carry out a task of a very delicate nature to strengthen the royalists' position, but falls into the crosshairs of enemies, and now he is openly threatened with retribution... DANGEROUS SECRET. Marwood feels caught between two fires when an old acquaintance, the daughter of the regicide Cat Lovett, turns to him for help. Remembering their shared past, he cannot refuse her. The thing is, she once knew the Cromwells closely and knows something very important about this family. So important that it might open a direct path to the scaffold for both Marwood and Cat... For the first time in Russian!