<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>In 1653 Luke and his deputy Harry are sent to Paris to negotiate secretly with the exiled king. they are separated and pursue independent investigations. Harry who reaches the royal court</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>attempts to solve the murders of two ladies-in-waiting while a disabled Luke investigates the death of an aristocrat's wife. The investigations are complicated by a feisty abbess hysterical nuns an unscrupulous courtier a Canadian adventurer and a rampaging bear. The search for English Catholic treasure focusses everybody's attention.</span></p>