Rebel Cast out from his home rejected by his family Tom Rivers returns to his regiment. But his commander believes the young hothead's recklessness & contempt for authority has no place in his troop. But to a spymaster like Captain Crafte Tom's dark & fearless nature is in itself a weapon to be turned upon the hated Cavaliers
- who else would dare to infiltrate Oxford now the Royalist capital to destroy the King's printing press & strike a blow at the very heart of the enemy? Renegade Raw with grief at the death of his father Edmund Rivers rejects the peace talks between Parliament & the King. He chooses instead to lead a hardened band of marauders across the moors appearing out of the frozen world to fall on unsuspecting rebel columns like wolves. But Prince Rupert
- recognising in Mun a fellow child of war
- has other plans for him from stealing a colossal gun to tunneling beneath the walls of Lichfield. The only peace the enemy will get from Mun Rivers is that of the grave. Huntress Her heart broken following the deaths of her beloved Emmanuel & her father Bess Rivers takes the hardest decision of her life: to leave her new-born son & depart Sheer House in search of the one person who might help her re-unite what is left of her broken family. Risking her own life on the road Bess will do whatever it takes to find her brother Tom & secure his Royal pardon but can she douse the flames of her brothers' fury & see them reconciled?