About this Book

Young
Simon, recently and tragically orphaned, becomes a scribe in the
following of the exiled Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Becket. The
uncertainty of the tumultuous years leading to the infamous cathedral
slaying is heightened by Simon's separation from his twin Edmund, who is
in the service of King Henry II.
With an expert pen Barbara Willard deftly recounts events leading to the bishop's martyrdom in 1170.