Kate’s mother, Eleanor, returns to York after her husband’s death in Strasbourg is greeted with suspicion and also becomes suspected of involvement in political upheaval in 1399 England, in the second novel of the series following The Service of the Dead As the fourteenth century comes to a close, York seethes on the brink of civil war-and young widow Kate Clifford, struggling to keep her businesses afloat, realizes that her mother is harboring a dangerous secret...
