Publisher's Synopsis
February, 1460. In the bitter dawn of a winter's morning a young nun is caught outside her priory walls by a corrupt knight and his vicious retinue. In the fight that follows, she is rescued by a young monk and the knight is defeated. But the consequences are far-reaching, and Thomas and Katherine are expelled from their religious Orders and forced to flee across land caught in the throes of one of the most savage and bloody civil wars in history: the Wars of the Roses.
