London, 1501; Young widow and candle maker Varina Westcott agrees to perform a clandestine service for Queen Elizabeth of York, wife of Henry VII: carve wax figures of her two lost infants and her two brothers, the Princes of the Tower, who vanished years ago. Varina, who lost a child herself, feels sympathy for the queen. And as she works under the watchful eye of handsome Nicholas Sutton, she develops feelings of quite a different nature...