Cassandra Clark

1382: Hildegaard, a nun, rides out for York and the Abbey of Meaux. The country is in a state of volatile peace after the peasants revolt. She encounters a gibbet with five corpses, and a little further on the body of a youth, brutally murdered. Who is he, and what is his connection to the hanged men?

Black February in the year 1383: The nun Hildegard is sent across Europe in search of a precious relic, the Cross of Constantine. She will need remarkable skills to survive such a dangerous quest. Many want her mission to fail, and one, above all, who plans a deadly revenge.