In history, to be an English King and to be murdered was no more than a hazard of the job and there has been a vast number of Kings where this has actually been the case. The story of the Kings and Queens of England is a wonderful drama, and many were not averse to the odd assassination or two by poisoning, starving, burning, imprisonment and an old favourite, beheading. Many have died under suspicious circumstances because the entire truth will never be fully known.

There were some monarchs who ruled for years and there were some who ruled for only a few months. There were also some who should never have ruled at all. Yet this group shares one thing in common. In their own lifetimes, they were the most powerful and brutal individuals in the land. Their stories span for fifteen hundred years, full of lust, betrayal, heroism, murder, cruelty and mysteries. This is the first book in a trilogy covering the Vikings, Normans, Plantagenets, Lancasters, Yorks and Tudors. It begins with a race of people who were struggling to survive and finishes with a comet blazing across the London sky heralding the end of Bloody Mary's reign.