1579, St. Andrews. A thirteen-year old boy meets his death on the
streets of the university city of St. Andrews and suspicion falls upon
one of the regents at the university, Nicholas Colp. Hew Cullan, a young
lawyer recently returned home from Paris, uncovers a complex tale of
passion and duplicity, of sexual desire in tension with the repressive
atmosphere of the Protestant Kirk and the austerity of the academic
cloister.