Abandoned on the steps of a chapel and offered in service to King Roderigo, young Ilario eventually joins the royal court as the King's Freak, where he inadvertently meets a powerful advisor's wife wh
"It's about sex, and cruelty, and forgiveness." Thus begins a sweeping historical adventure about two dueling swordsmen and the plot to kill a king in the grand tradition of Dorothy Dunnett and Ale
