From the No.1 bestselling author of The American Boy and The Silent Boy comes a historical thriller set during the time of the Great Fire of London. The first of an exciting new series of novels. A city in flames, London, 1666. As the Great Fire consumes everything in its path, the body of a man is found in the ruins of St Pauls Cathedral stabbed in the neck, thumbs tied behind his back. A woman on the run, the son of a traitor, James Marwood is forced to hunt the killer through the citys devastated streets. There he encounters a determined young woman who will stop at nothing to secure her freedom. A killer seeking revenge, when a second murder victim is discovered in the Fleet Ditch, Marwood is drawn into the political and religious intrigue of Westminster and across the path of a killer with nothing to lose