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First UK paperback (B format 130 x 198 mm) with a single #1 as the number sequence indicating a first printing of this edition. Unread. Comes complete with the publisher’s publicity handout. “A rollicking tale of murder, mystery, mercenaries and mayhem . . . The isolated island of Jago is the only home Hannah Conquest has ever known. But her carefree existence comes to an abrupt halt when her guardian, Archbishop Alice Grey, is brutally murdered. Someone desperately wants to suppress a secret kept by the archbishop and if the attempts on Hannah’s own life are any indication, the killer believes that Alice passed the knowledge of it on to her ward before her head was separated from her neck. Meanwhile, a deadly power struggle is brewing on Jago. And as Hannah digs deeper into the mystery that Alice left behind, assisted by two rather different detectives, she must race to unravel a chain of ancient riddles in order to save not just her own life, but her island home itself . . .” IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DESPATCH