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To her, he represents authority and power. To him, she spells sedition and danger. Orphaned at birth, Cecily Neville owes more than her name to the former hospitallers of Temple Roding. She was still a child when the reformation wrenched her home and adopted family from her and now, like the few surviving monks, she lives in fear that her past could take a deadly toll. Her closest friend is her precious peregrine falcon, Charlemagne. Her greatest enemy is Allan Smythe, the new owner of Temple Roding.

"Underneath the soil, where the bones of the hanged men stood in their upright, unmarked graves ... blood diffused through the ground to reach them. And, as it did so, something small and dark stirred among the dead." Prison can force you to face your demons. Sometimes though, you have to face more than just your own…William Lees has been transferred to HMP Page. It’s an old prison, with even older secrets buried under its soil. When a shocking act of violence takes place, something awakens. Something that thrives off bloodshed, that revels in violence, and it has seen Lees.