Author Event - Frederic Fahey & The Scoundrel's Son

It's the year 1553, and the King of England, only fifteen years of age, is gravely ill and on the edge of death. His best friend pleads with him not to make the worst mistake of his brief reign by naming his cousin, also a teen, as heir to the throne while the King's half-sister plots her return to London to seize the crown from afar. Caught in this bloody crisis of succession at the midpoint of the Tudor Dynasty is an unlikely circle of three friends still in their teens, a commoner and two royals, being swept by the terrible winds of history.

Tom Canty, the pauper in Mark Twain's beloved The Prince and the Pauper tells his tale some years later to the unknown "my lady." It's been six years since Tom first exchanged places with Prince Edward, now King of England. Edward introduces Tom, both fifteen, to…