Laura White left a good business and a lover in Edinburgh to search for a scrap of the bones of Renaissance religious reformer Girolamo Savonarola in southern Germany. She discovers others are also in the hunt for the reliquary, believed to be decorated with paintings by the master Botticelli. Embroiled in the politics of neo-Nazism and terrorism she becomes the prime suspect in a string of murders as she tries to unlock the secret of Savonarola's bones.