In his next historical novel, designed in the “medieval thriller” genre, the modern British detective master Paul Dougherty addresses one of the mysteries that has not been resolved to this day. 13th century, Great Britain, rooted in the past conflict between the English and Scottish kingdoms. This time, the insightful Hugh Corbett, the envoy of the English Lord Chancellor Benstead, will have to investigate the mysterious death of the Scottish king Alexander III. Yes, the king died in the dead of night and without witnesses, falling off a cliff and falling to his death - but was it just a fatal accident? Too many threads are intertwined, too many greedy eyes are fixed on the Scottish throne - both from within the country and from abroad. Following the king, his associates die one after another - a sure sign that the sophisticated Hugh seems to have taken the trail of the killer...