The Geraldine Conspiracy Book

The year is 1537. With barbaric cruelty, Henry VIII has almost wiped out the powerful Geraldine dynasty in Ireland; the eleven-year-old Gerald FitzGerald is the sole survivor. Plucked from the maw of the Tudor murder machine by his English tutor, Thomas Leverous and his young aunt, Eleanor, the Geraldine and his protectors flee from the king's agents in Ireland. The leaders of the Gaelic and Anglo-Norman traditions offer to put aside their differences and unite to save the Geraldine. But their efforts become entangled in the Machiavellian net of European politics, which destroys their tentative steps towards unity, jeopardises the Geraldine's life and reveals the dark secret that both unites and divides his protectors, Eleanor and Thomas Leverous.