About This Book
TWO BOYS ARE IN THE TOWER. THE KING'S PEACE DEPENDS ON THEIR SILENCE.When King Edward IV dies, his brother Richard of Gloucester is named Lord Protector to his 12-year-old nephew, the new king. But the court is a nest of vipers, and protection soon looks like imprisonment.Richard secures his nephews in the Tower of London, a fortress where secrets are kept and heirs are easily lost.To save the realm, he must become king. To become king, he must remove the boys from the line of succession . But when the princes vanish, their disappearance unleashes a new kind of terror.The Mother: From a cold stone crypt, Elizabeth Woodville plots a desperate rebellion, using her daughter as a pawn to unite her enemies .The Kingmaker: The Duke of Buckingham, who helped Richard take the throne, is now haunted by what he has done, his loyalty curdling into dread .The Traitor: Lord Stanley, caught between the usurper and the challenger, must navigate a war of whispers where one wrong move will mean the execution of his own son .In a kingdom built on rumor and fear, the ghosts of two murdered children are a more powerful weapon than any army.
