Lady Anwen cannot forget, nor her brother forgive.Since she killed Lord Meuric's son in self-defense on a lonely Welsh road, and spent several months imprisoned and mistreated in his castle, Anwen has fought her nightmares. Alone and unable to bear a man's touch, she unites with a local 'witch' to learn how to heal.As Edward Stafford, the Duke of Buckingham, prepares for the autumn joust, he fears escalating tension between the locals and Lord Meuric's brutal overseer, Beynon. His mood worsens when Sir Thomas Lovell, the king's ruthless enforcer, arrives unannounced in search of a traitor.As thousands flock to the tourney, death, superstition, denial, and treason come to a brutal conflict, as a child searches the castle for the bones of a lost maiden and uncovers a terrible secret...