Book description
Through the wet spring of 1369 a pilgrimage wends its way to the
sacred city of St David's. Owen Archer, ex-soldier and sometime spy,
accompanies the party to recruit archers for the Duke of Lancaster,
who prepares to fight the French. But he and Geoffrey Chaucer have
another, covert, mission: to ascertain whether the Duke's steward at
Cydweli is betraying him to Welsh rebels.
Trouble precedes them: a body in the Duke's livery is left at the
city gates. And when Owen rides on to Cydweli he finds the household
of the steward and his beautiful young wife rocked by the theft of
money from the exchequer and riven by tension, culminating in another
violent attack. He must work fast to investigate charges of treachery,
infidelity and murder if he is to prevent further deaths.
Political skullduggery, passion and ambition clash in this
intriguing, evocative and compelling novel which vividly conjures up
the medieval world.
CANDACE ROBB has read and researched medieval history for many years,
having studied for a Ph. D in Medieval and Anglo-Saxon Literature. She
is also the author of the Margaret Kerr Mysteries.
