Ben has one mission: to survive... Fifteen-year-old Ben is delivering coal to the Tower of London when he sees Princess Elizabeth being locked up. He's alarmed when she begs him for help, but what can he do? He's just an orphaned coal boy. The Tower is the most dreaded place in Renaissance England. Its dark dungeons are filled with rats, and ghosts patrol the corridors at night. Still, he's determined to help her. But danger lurks at every turn in the Tower's maze-like corridors and twisting stairwells. Just when triumph seems at hand, the notorious Beefeater guards catch Ben and throw him behind bars. Can Ben scale the fortress walls and escape across the putrid moat? Or is he doomed to join the ghosts of prisoners past in the Tower's darkest depths? Packed with a special fact section that's sure to satisfy curious minds.
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