Twelfth-century anatomist Adelia Aguilar must once again examine the dead as gruesome events are beginning to unfold... Henry II's favourite mistress Rosamund Clifford has been poisoned
- & rumour says by his jealous wife Eleanor of Aquitaine. If Henry believes the stories England will be torn apart as King battles Queen. In a race against time to prove Eleanor's innocence & with a dangerous assassin on the loose Adelia has never faced greater danger. The armies that might cause civil war lie behind her. The icy winds of a dreadful winter blow around her. & ahead she must brave the thorns of the impenetrable labyrinth that surrounds Fair Rosamund's tower & decipher the mystery of the dead woman who lies frozen within.