Download or read book The Shadow King written by Jane Stevenson and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2004-11-23 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Balthasar Stuart, the son of Elizabeth of Bohemia and an African prince, works as a doctor in late seventeenth-century Holland, until he is driven out by the plague to build a new life in Restoration London and Barbados.