It's London, 1501. Despite the difference in their stations, Varina Westcott, candlemaker and widow, shares a bond with her royal mistress, Queen Elizabeth of York, wife of Henry VII. Both women know what it is like to lose a child. Varina has lost a son, the Queen two of her babes and both her brothers - whose mysterious disappearance from the Tower of London has never been solved. Elizabeth requests that Varina use her skills to carve wax figures of all four dead children as a lasting remembrance. But when news comes from Wales of the unexpected death of Prince Arthur, the queen's eldest child and heir to the throne, Elizabeth asks Varina to perform a more dangerous service. The queen fears that Arthur did not die of a sudden illness, as reported. She requires her confidante to do what she cannot and travel into the Welsh countryside and discover all she can about her son's death. Aided by the handsome and ambitious Nicholas Sutton, Varina's mission will be a difficult one, both Henry and Elizabeth have enemies determined to bring down the Tudor dynasty...

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