Finalist for the 2016 rwa daphne du maurier award for historical fiction romantic suspense. Henry Viii's palace of whitehall is the last place on earth joanna stafford wants to be. But a summons from the king cannot be r...Finalist for the 2016 rwa daphne du maurier award for historical fiction romantic suspense. Henry Viii's palace of whitehall is the last place on earth joanna stafford wants to be. But a summons from the king cannot be refused. After her priory was destroyed, joanna, a young dominican novice, vowed to live a quiet life, weaving tapestries and shunning dangerous conspiracies.