VIII is slowly, painfully dying. His Protestant and incillors are engaged in a final and decisive power >ever wins will control the government of Henry's ;ht-year-old Prince Edward. As heretics are hunted 1, and the radical Protestant Anne Askew is burned e Catholic party focus their attack on Henry's sixth w Shardlake's old mentor. Queen Catherine Parr. 11 has a secret. She has written a confessional book, / a Sinner, so radically Protestant that if it came to ntion it could bring both her and her sympathizers crashing down. sk inexplicably vanishes, and a single page is found hand of a murdered printer, Shardlake is summoned 'alacc to help the desperate Queen. His loyalty will a swirl of intrigue inside the palace, where Catholic 'rotestant friends can be equally dangerous, and the runisrs. who will follow the wind wherever it blows, rous than either . . .