This is the story of an inn-keeper's daughter and the natural son of a king. Because her family had served King Richard, and because the king spoke kindly to her when he stopped at her family's inn on the way to Bosworth Field, Tansy was devoted to the Yorkist cause. After the army left, another visitor arrived -- a young man of no apparent importance, wo called himself Dickon. Dickon's face showed his relationship with the King, and after Richard had been killed and the Yorkist army defeated, Tansy risked her good name to shelter him from Henry Tudor's victorious army.

When Dickon Broome, a young fugitive from the battle of Bosworth came to the White Boar Inn, he found shelter through the kindness of the landlord's daughter, Tansy. And she alone shared his secret--that he was none other than the illegitimate son of Richard III, whose crown was now upon the head of Henry Tudor. Knowing that his life would be forfeit if Henry should learn his identity, Dickon had to keep that secret at all costs. Tansy was the one person in the world whom he could trust. And in the early, dangerous days of the Tudor's reign, neither could guess how the knowledge they shared was to change their lives ....