Although only 28 years of age, Lady Guinevere Mallory has buried four husbands. She's an unusually wealthy woman in 16th-century England, vulnerable to suspicion, rumor, and jealousy . . . for what really happened to all those husbands? Hugh of Beaucaire is secretly charged by the king to investigate her. But this devastatingly handsome stranger also has a personal motive: he believes he holds legal claim to one of Lady Guinevere's estates if he can prove her guilty of murder.