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Surgeon Mathew Fletcher continues his search for the Royalist killers of his beloved Elizabeth Moor, her Father and Mathew's brother, Charles. To track down the murderers, Mathew has had to join the Royalist Army and is acting as a spy in return for help from Major Robert Overton.After his humiliating failure to capture Hull, King Charles takes his army south towards the heart of the English Midlands. Mathew must follow the King to find the murderers. En-route, Mathew's new friends, pick up an unexpected passenger, who brings discord to Mathew's group.The King raises his standard at Nottingham, declaring civil war, not only dividing the country, but families and friends as they take sides for King or Parliament.But, does Mathew face a civil war of his own amongst his new friends, as the passenger makes her presence felt?Can a turncoat become a new friend and ally, as Mathew searches for Elizabeth's murderers?Caught in between a warring king and his Parliament, can life get any more complicated for Mathew? Life is changing rapidly for the young surgeon and his quest becomes more complicated as he faces new challenges.

King Charles has raised his standard at Nottingham declaring war against his parliament and consequently his own people. Mathew and his friends are caught up in the middle of it all. Mathew refuses to give up his search for the last of the murderers of his beloved Elizabeth and so they must all follow the King as he crosses the country enlarging his army.The road Mathew now travels leads him to Shrewsbury and his showdown with John Franks, but whoever it was that said 'vengeance is sweet' had never tried to kill anyone, let alone a ruthless murderer.Changes take place within Mathew's group of friends as they learn Shrewsbury is not to be their final destination and that the Earl of Essex, with a large parliamentarian army, is in close pursuit.Torn between returning home and following his career as surgeon to the King, Mathew has to make decisions that will inevitably change his own life and affect the outcome of the civil war in EnglandThe historical background events to this story are all true, only Mathew had his friends are made up. All the medical procedures have been taken from 17c medical books, so have the medicines.