Boleyn’s Alternative England

Jacque Boleyn starts out trying to protect his pre-teen sister Elizabeth who will become queen, but finds he has to transform 1550s England to stop a new oppression. Jacque, an illegitimate older brother from Elizabeth, grew up in France from the time Anne Boleyn visited the French court.

Jacque finds a cast of international characters who suffer from oppressive merchant changes. They discover a shadow group intent on setting up a world-wide company. The new company was dedicated to exploit countries for control over the Silk Road trade.

The shadow group is supported by the Jesuits who are burning Buddhist ashrams in India, capturing Iroquois in the new World, and aiming to enter Japan.

Acre, one of the Buddhists in Boleyns group, arrived from Goa to stop the ashram burning and brings a background torn between being a nonviolent Buddhist monk and his special ops skills from the Knights Templar. His English family once fled because of the ban on the Knights Templar 200 years earlier.

Along with Acre, Abhaya another monk, seeks to avenge the slaughter of Indians although he wants to use nonviolent methods.

At the same time, Jacques group welcomes Two Rivers, a captured Iroquois, who seeks a new path to rely on men rather than the female equality in the Iroquois Confederation.

Two Rivers learns the value of women just as Jacque finds out women can deceive as much as men.

Jacques group first struggles against the nobles, but discovers the nobles are being led by merchants who want to set up the worlds first multi-national corporation. In the mix, the Vatican and Jesuits vie for power during a papal conclave.

To counter his enemies, Jacque starts protests where women attend night councils to plan on recalling members of Parliament. The effort continues by using Iroquois maize as a crop to give support to farmers. Coops become a way to bypass the merchants plans.

In the background, new smaller merchants organize with a support from Venice. Venice has worked behind the scenes to turn the election of a new Pope that would place England on a war footing with Spain.

Jacque extends his use of coops to include Persia and India as Spain and France threaten England. But the powers of Europe are threatened from new communal councils developed on the style of the Iroquois Confederation.