Ink Beneath the Crown

A single waterlogged page—bearing a Vatican seal no scholar has seen in five centuries—threatens to unravel everything England believes about the Tudor Reformation. Dr. Catherine Ashworth, a paleographer at Oxford, authenticates the document and immediately becomes a target: powerful figures within the Royal Archives will do anything to keep history buried. Caught between academic duty and national myth, Catherine faces a choice that could cost her career, her safety, or an entire country's understanding of itself.