Summer, 1384. Hildegard of Meaux – sleuth, spy and now an abbess of the powerful Cistercian order – has found refuge from a world of violence and blood-feud at her new grange in Yorkshire.
But by taking a bonded maid into the fold, Hildegard has made a dangerous enemy, an enemy who thinks nothing of destroying her little sanctuary to further his own ends.
Meanwhile her own history, and her possession of a priceless relic, threatens to drag her into the schemes of traitors to the crown who seek to overthrow King Richard II – including the ruthless Henry Bolingbroke. Can even the resourceful Hildegard unweave the tangled skein of conspiracy?
The Law of Angels vividly recreates the conflicting worlds of Medieval England – a place where loyalty meets treason and murderous superstition.