Hernán Cortés and the Veil of Iliona

The scepter of Priam collected its price, and Chloe learned that relics are not found: they are paid for. Newly married, with a secret growing inside her, she follows the trail of Hernán Cortés — conqueror of Mexico and keeper of the veil of Iliona — from the Merindades of Burgos to the Maya villages of the Yucatán.

But someone else is after the veil. Someone who has known the family's every step for years, who knows what happened in Mexico long ago, and what is about to happen on a medieval bridge, one spring night, over the waters of the Ebro.