
Young Kit finds himself on a plague cart wedged between the bodies of his mother & father But he is alive & is rescued & taken into the home of the Ravenmaster at the Tower of London He soon finds he can speak the language of the big black birds a skill which proves useful when he finds himself caught up in a story of queens & treason princesses & executioners There can be no change in the history of Henry Vlll's rst two wives but without Kit & the ravens another Tudor monarch might never have survived