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In a gripping historical novel of suspense and love in the national best-selling writer of The Queenis Governess, two ladies struggle to conquer the enemies of the risky Tudor monarchy by discovering the secrets of the dead, London, 1501. In a period of political unrest, Varina Westcott, a widow and candle producer for judge and chapel, wants to do a covert support for Queen Elizabeth of York, wife of Henry VII--define wax results of four dead kids, two of her offspring misplaced in childhood and her two siblings, the Princes of the Structure, whose strange disappearance years back hasn't been solved. Having Dropped a young child himself, Varina seems a bond with the king. And as she operates underneath the careful attention of fine Nicholas Sutton, an ambitious associate to the queens, she evolves emotions of a significant different character, Then information originates from Wales of the unforeseen demise of newly-married King Arthur, the queen’s oldest child and heir to the throne. Deeply mourning, Elizabeth thinks that Arthur didn't die of a sudden disease, as documented, but was really killed by her husband’s enemies. This period her job for Varina and Nicholas is of essential significance--journey in to the Welsh wilderness to research the prince’s death. But whilst the pair unearths one disturbing idea after another, they start To worry the conspiracy they’re facing is much more dangerous and ambitious than actually the king imagined. And it seeks to totally ruin the Tudor dynasty.