Word has come: King Lear is dead, having been driven mad and betrayed. His three daughters too, broken in battle. But someone has survived: Lear's queen, exiled to a nunnery years ago, written out of history, her name forgotten. In J.R. Thorp's creative twist on the Shakespeare play, she can tell her story, and to find peace she must reckon with her past and make a terrible choice—one upon which her destiny, and that of the entire abbey, rests.