James Ashworth, a young Prince ruled under the thumb of his cold, abusive, father, the king of England, Henry Ashworth. With his father's constant neglect and lack of emotional stability, James grows up surrounded by darkness and loneliness. The Ashworth castle is filled with rumors of disappearing women and murder. As James' curiosity grows, he questions his father of the past mysteries of the castle. King Henry shut him down with a furious threat of harm to anyone that ever speaks of such tales again. As James approached his sixteenth birthday, his father's paranoia of dying young, causes a chain reaction that changes the course of James Ashworth's life. Henry throws his son into a gruesome training course to prepare James in the duties of a king and his responsibility to the kingdom. However, the young and beautiful, Isabella Wellington, catches James's eye at the ball and wins his heart. Isabella causes a rip between the king and the Prince. James must now choose his heritage or his love for Isabella. As the battle rages between father and son, the past begins to unfold, and the secrets of the castle begin to unravel.