Contents

Cover

Also by Candace Robb from Severn House

Title Page

Copyright

Praise for the Owen Archer mysteries

About the Author

Acknowledgments

Glossary

Map

1. The Last Judgment

2. The Offending Hand

3. Ridley’s Pride

4. An Impertinent Lady, a Humbled Man

5. The Ridley Women

6. Goldbetter and Company

7. A Bloody Treasure

8. Down by the River

9. Tonics and Waits

10. Forebodings

11. The Wool War

12. A Gleeful Conspirator

13. Liaisons

14. The King’s Mistress

15. Nightmares

16. Uncomfortable Encounters

17. Jasper’s Quest

18. Tildy’s Secret

19. Grief

20. Desperate Measures

21. Martin Wirthir

22. Complications

23. St. John’s Day

24. Connections

25. Wirthir’s Doom

26. Revenge

27. The Quick and the Dead

28. Blood Enemies

Author’s Note

Read on for an extract of The Nun’s Tale