The title of the novel comes from an old proverb, "Truth is the daughter of time", and the book directly challenges the received idea that Richard was a tyrant who murdered the Princes in the Tower.
Filming on location in New York, Rock places his character, Richard Cooper, in an investment bank in a midtown tower where they ought to review their security arrangements: sleek, sexy Nikki Tru (Kerry Washington) keeps turning up in his office uninvited and unannounced.