With the bravura storytelling and pungent authenticity of detail she brought to her acclaimed lymond chronicles, Dorothy Dunnett, grande dame of the historical fiction novel, presents series. The time is the 15th century...With the bravura storytelling and pungent authenticity of detail she brought to her acclaimed lymond chronicles, Dorothy Dunnett, grande dame of the historical fiction novel, presents series. The time is the 15th century, when intrepid merchants became the new knighthood of Europe.