When Marian Weirheart was eighteen years old, she left her home, her family, and her future to save her brother from a war no one wanted to fight. She wasn't going to live. Her family never thought to see her again. Until they did. Eight years after her departure, she has returned to English soil, and found a very different country from which she left. People starving in their own homes. Corrupted leaders living off the blood and taxes of innocents. Outlaws and rapists in the forest. Whispers of the Wood's Men, who never seem to stay in one place for long. And a frustrating young man with too many secrets to hide... Upon learning her brother has been captured and taken to Nottingham town, Marian sets off on a journey. One that will make her question everything she thought she knew about herself.