The bestselling author of A Rose for the Crown and Daughter of
York takes a young woman that history noticed only once and sets her on
a quest for the truth about the murder of two boys and a man who claims
to be king.
All that history knows of Grace Plantagenet is that she was an
illegitimate daughter of Edward IV and one of two attendants aboard the
funeral barge of his widowed queen. Thus, she was half sister of the
famous young princes, who -- when this story begins in 1485 -- had been
housed in the Tower by their uncle, Richard III, and are presumed dead.
But in the 1490s, a young man appears at the courts of Europe claiming
to be Richard, duke of York, the younger of the boys, and seeking to
claim his rightful throne from England's first Tudor king, Henry VII.
But is this man who he says he is? Or is he Perkin Warbeck, a puppet of
Margaret of York, duchess of Burgundy, who is determined to regain the
crown for her York family? Grace Plantagenet finds herself in the midst
of one of English history's greatest mysteries. If she can discover the
fate of the princes and the true identity of Perkin Warbeck, perhaps she
will find her own place in her family.