Winter

The winter of 1535 promises to be a very hard one.  Seventeen-year-old Sir Peter Salt, accompanied by his friend, Sir Henry Martley, poet and scholar, travels to Nieuport, Voravia’s capital, to draw some funds to finance the work on the iron mine on his estate.  They discover their banker has been murdered.  As they investigate the killing a plot that threatens the vary existence of Voravia is uncovered.

Sixteen-year-old Princess Katherine, queen of Voravia is drawn into a scheme to save her nation.  She finds herself alone and in great danger.

There are no magic swords or flying horses, to come to their aid, Kate and Peter have to survive by the use of their brains and courage.