To escape an eternity of poverty, mercenary Sir Benedict Palmer agrees to 1 final, profitable job: help Ruler Henry II’s knights seize the traitor Archbishop Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. But what starts like a clandestine arrest ends in cold-blooded murder. And when Fitzurse, the knights’ ringleader, kidnaps Theodosia, a beautiful young nun who observed the criminal offense, Palmer can sit down silently by no more. For not merely can be Theodosia’s virtue on the line, so too may be the key she unknowingly carries-a secret he knows Fitzurse will torture out of her.

Right now Palmer and Theodosia are on the run, strangers from different worlds obligated to rely just on one another as they race to discover the hidden motive behind Becket’s grisly murder-and the surprising truth that could destroy a kingdom.