1121. The trail of a mass murderer and a hunt for a runaway nun. King Henry I has lost his heir in the sinking of The White Ship and his reign is fraught with the succession crisis. The king is obsessed with relics and prophecies. He summons his daughter, the Empress Maud, to return to England, and considers putting a woman on the English throne. King Henry's former mistress, Nest ferch Rhys, is unhappily married to the Norman constable of Cardigan Castle. She becomes increasingly embroiled in the Welsh resistance to the Norman occupation of her family's lands. Sheriff Haith distracts himself from his loss of Nest by plumbing the mystery of the shipwreck in which the King's heir died along with three hundred other young Norman nobles. As Haith pieces together fragments of the tragic shipwreck, he discovers a chest full of secrets, but will the revelations bring a culprit to light and aid the grieving king? Book III in the Conquest trilogy centring on Nest ferch Rhys and the reign of King Henry I.
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Tracey Warr was born in London and lives in southwest France. She worked at the Institute of Contemporary Arts and the Arts Council of England. She was the co-curator of the Edge biennales. She was programme lead in Fine Art at Oxford Brookes University and in Arts Management at Dartington College of Arts. She worked as a senior lecturer at Glasgow School of Art, Scotland; Bauhaus University, Germany; Piet Zwart Institute, Netherlands; and Saint Francis University (US) in France. She established the Arts and Place and Poetics of Imagination MAs at Dartington Arts School.Her books and essays on contemporary art have been published by Phaidon, Routledge, The Barbican Gallery, Tate, Palgrave Macmillan, Intellect, Manchester University Press and Performance Research journal. She has also published five historical novels and a future fiction novella.
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