Lucy E Hawksmoor, authority on all things Arabic, finds the present crashing in on the past as far-right groups try to stop her quest to find the final resting place of Boabdil, the last King of the Moors. She meets the mysterious and attractive Gloria whose family claim to have guarded the secret of its location for 600 years. Lucy, unaware of the dangerous world she is entering, receives death threats and then a Muslim student is murdered. She is plunged into a nightmare world, not knowing who she can trust. Is Gloria who she claims to be? How far will her enemies go to stop her? As riots sweep Granada, Lucy's search for Boabdil's tomb becomes a political timebomb - one that will endanger the lives of everyone involved.