In 1536, the murder of the princes in the Tower is still within living memory . . .
Brother Thomas of Croyland Abbey has an urgent mission – to find a new king and perhaps save the great abbeys of England from the destruction threatened by Henry VIII.
The vital question he has to answer-who are the surviving Plantagenets? The search for a member of the royal house of York leads Brother Thomas across an England seething with rebellion – to the heart of the mystery surrounding the princes in the Tower…