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*‘So you see, my dear little goose, there’s no need to plan revenge on those horrible men-at-arms as I’m sure you would like to, because the angels will do it for you. That is their law. And none can escape their terrible punishment.’* Summer, 1384. Hildegard of Meaux – sleuth, spy and now an abbess of the powerful Cistercian order – has found refuge from a world of violence and blood-feud at her new grange in Yorkshire. But by taking a bonded maid into the fold, Hildegard has made a dangerous enemy, an enemy who thinks nothing of destroying her little sanctuary to further his own ends. Meanwhile her own history, and her possession of a priceless relic, threatens to drag her into the schemes of traitors to the crown who seek to overthrow King Richard II – including the ruthless Henry Bolingbroke. Can even the resourceful Hildegard unweave the tangled skein of conspiracy?