It's 1516 and Scotland and England are teetering on the brink of yet another war.
So when a torso is found right on the border between the two countries, it threatens to create a bloodbath.
French diplomat, Antoine de Lissieu, is dragged in to investigate and reluctantly takes a band of men to the savage frontier region. But he’s shunned by both sides of the divide and plagued by traumatic memories from his past.
As time runs out and the bodies mount up, can Antoine catch the culprits and prevent more carnage – or will his own demons catch up with him?
It’s 1517 and Scotland has finally made peace with England. But with a five-year-old king, an absent governor and the country bitterly divided, the real battle is just beginning.
As traitors and trouble-makers circle the throne, French diplomat Antoine de Lissieu is sent to guard a notorious bandit, in the wild frontier region of the Marches. It seems like a straightforward task, which will finally allow him to go home. But Antoine soon finds himself fighting against poisonous forces who will stop at nothing to win power
As the bodies pile up, and Antoine’s own head is put on the block, can he defeat the conspirators or will he be destroyed by their murderous ambition?