Gascony 1483. Why is a consul's daughter lying dead in the Sainte Eulalie chapel when she should be in a mansion attending her betrothal banquet? Bishop's enquirer Guillaume Lansac is tasked with solving the mystery - until he is called away by a danger that threatens English King Richard III's nephews who are travelling to safety in Portugal. He must ride fast to Navarre to save them, leaving his wife Belina to solve the murder alone. But she is more worried about the dangers facing her family. One of her brothers has returned wounded from the war in Granada, bringing a Moorish girl with him, while the other risks being turned out of his mill and robbed of his livelihood and family home. Belina finds herself surrounded on all sides by enemies who seem determined to destroy her. How can she survive in Guillaume's absence, let alone solve the crime?