Decades ago, Britain created a new constitutional position - a King chosen not by bloodline, but by exceptional intelligence and human kindness. Someone to protect democracy.
The candidates are known as the Greater Goods. Most of them want nothing to do with the role.
Now someone is killing them.
Detective Liz Porter has a string of unsolved murders and a missing ten-year-old boy in the wind. Maggie Fitzsimmons is a Greater Good in hiding, and that same boy has just appeared on her doorstep, told to run here if something bad happened.
Something bad happened. His mother has been murdered.
Now Porter is hunting the killers while Maggie is hunted, and the boy they both want to save knows something that will change everything.