Synopsis
Epiphany, 1913. Eleanor of Aquitaine sits upon England's throne. Her beloved son Richard Lionheart is missing, presumed dead -and the court is whispering that her younger son, John, is plotting to seize the crown. Meanwhile, on the snowy highroad from Winchester, a destitute young man falls heir to a bloodstained letter, pressed into his hand by a dying man. The missive becomes Justin the Quency's passport into the queen's confidence- and into the heart of danger, as he persues a cunning murderer and jousts with secret trators in Eleanor's court of intrigue and mystery...