Jane Langley is a history teacher, a married woman, and someone who prefers facts over fantasy. Her days are spent wrangling teenagers, assigning essays, and trying to keep her head above water in a job that never quite ends when the bell rings. Her husband is away on business, as usual, and the quiet of her home feels ordinary.Then one day, she wakes up to find King Henry VIII standing in her house.He is not a dream. He is not a trick of the light. He is very real, very dead, and entirely too confident about staying for tea. As Jane tries to make sense of why a sixteenth-century monarch is haunting her guest room, Henry is full of opinions about the modern world, her profession, and he seems far too interested in how she spends her evenings.