Summary

In fourteenth-century England, beautiful Queen Isabella—humiliated by her weak, unfaithful husband—is emerging from the shadows to take her revenge. But her newly arrived, twenty-one-year-old Welsh handmaiden, Gwenith de Percy, also seeks vengeance—against the English invaders who crushed her beloved Wales. Isabella's once-golden marriage is now her penance. Due to his rumored relations with men, Parliament forced Edward to share his throne—a demeaning arrangement that torments Isabella.

With the help of her secret, noble lover, Roger Mortimer—an enemy of her husband, imprisoned in the Tower of London—the queen plots to take control. Thrilled by this turn of events, Gwenith realizes that a king cannot afford to be weak—especially when his formidable, discontented queen seeks his power as her due.