In fifteenth-century England, fifteen-year-old Lily believes the gloom of Glumfell Forest will protect her family’s secrets, but Edward, Earl of Ravensworth, Prince Henry’s companion and a knight charged with hunting royal enemies,
corners her and finds her implicated in a theft that could shake the peace of the realm.
Years afterward, Henry V is king and acts quickly against whispers of rebellion, and suspicion falls once more on Lily’s family.
Edward recognizes her amid the coronation crowds, and the hunt he began for traitors becomes a pursuit of the woman he cannot forget, ending in a royal decree that binds them in marriage so he can shield her from her kin’s treachery.
He anticipates a dutiful, winsome bride and instead discovers a rebellious imagination, while Lily, betrayed and used as a pawn, must face the man her family calls their greatest enemy.
As vengeful nobles conspire to separate them, loyalty and desire draw the pair deeper into a peril neither honor nor wit can easily escape.
