It is the Spring of 1449. Recently widowed and still grieving for her husband, Christiana Helyngton finds her life wrenched apart by her late husband's greedy and ambitious relatives who are determined to have control of her lands and her daughters. Kidnapped, defamed and imprisoned, she must find a way to save herself before she can save her children. For Dame Frevisse at St. Frideswide's nunnery, Christiana is at first nothing more than a puzzle. Then, questions rise and troubles deepen and turn deadly. England is being drawn towards civil war by a struggle between the corrupt men who hold power around the king and those who oppose them. Christiana must use a secret entrusted to her by her husband as he was dying - but it is a secret that could bring down those lords nearest the king and destroy, rather than save, those most dear to her. Drawn into trouble far deeper than it first seemed, Frevisse must decide where her loyalties lie.
- ISBN10 0709079087
- ISBN13 9780709079088
- Publish Date 29 September 2006 (first published 4 January 2005)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 7 April 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher The Crowood Press Ltd
- Imprint Robert Hale Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 224
- Language English