The Scarlet cope

The much anticipated historical fiction debut novel by Stephen J Vaughan, "The Scarlet Cope", now out on Amazon. The story of the Scarlet Cope, mysteriously weaved in the Dark Ages upon the behest of God by an old mage. The magical power of this cope can transform any reality upon thought alone. Originally intended for the inspiration of good, but like all things can be inverted for the use of evil if the user so wishes.
From 1066, to 1536 the Scarlet Cope had been hidden secretly from view, until King Henry VIII's Reformation of the Monasteries, where Sir Thomas Darcy believes the Scarlet Cope to be part of his family history. Not wanting King Henry to purloin the priests' cape he hires Robert Aske, a well known lawyer and leader of the Pilgrimage of Grace to track down the mysterious cope.
Well over 400 years later in an alternate 1977, a Frenchman Oska Rebert is also in search of the Scarlet Cope. He believes the priests' cope to be his family heirloom.
Oska unwittingly finds himself embroiled in the growing rebel Punk Movement, an association punishable by death, dealt out by the one world dictator, the "Overseer". The Overseer, loved like a god or hated like the devil. This mysterious dictator has never been seen, though his right hand man the "Cowl" confesses it to be real. Will Oska reveal the truth about the Overseer and of the Scarlet Cope, is there a connection to the 16th century? Not only is he putting his own life at risk, but of those around him.