Kings have a way of making nuisances of themselves. Vesuvia
Adelia Rachel Ortese Aguilar has finally achieved a peaceful,
happy, if somewhat unorthodox life for herself. She lives a quiet
life in the Cambridgeshire Fenlands, raising her young daughter
Allie (fathered by the long-absent Rowley Picot, now the bishop of
St. Alban’s) and spending time with Allie’s nurse
Gyltha and her companion (the Arabic eunuch and Adelia’s
oldest friend Mansur). Adelia’s gr