Spring 1471: The Lions of Europe are grumbling. The English shake themselves free of the Wars of the Roses; France and Burgundy face each other across the Somme, and Venice, with Cyprus her unwilling daughter, attempts to stem the growing threat of the Ottoman Turk. Meanwhile in Scotland, merchant-banker Nicholas de Fleury, having wrested his infant son from the boy's formidable mother, pauses en route to the land of golden light to set in train a deception more perilous and more destructive than any of these political manoeuvrings. An intricate, brilliant, unforgivable plan that will ensnare nations in the triumphant ruin of his many enemies - but may also sever Nicholas from his friends, setting his lethal spark loose in the volatile magazine of Renaissance politics... To Lie with Lions is volume six in The House of Niccolo Series
