In 1538, England is in the midst of bloody power struggles between crown and cross that threaten to tear the country apart. Novitiate Joanna Stafford has seen what lies inside the king's torture rooms and risks imprisonment again when she is caught up in a shadowy international plot targeting the king. As the power plays turn vicious, Joanna understands she may have to assume her role in a prophecy foretold by three different seers. The life of Henry VIII and the future of Christendom are in her handshands that must someday hold the chalice that lays at the center of these deadly prophecies.
