More than eighteen months have passed since Anne de Bohun has seen her lover, Edward Plantagenet, King of England. Anne has acquired a small farm outside Brugge, where she and her son can live a peaceful life. But fate has other plans. Yet again, England is convulsed by civil war. Warwick the treacherous Duke of Clarence, Edward's younger brother, drives the charismatic king into exile. Anne is the only person Edward can trust to broker a deal between himself and his brother-in-law, the powerful Charles, Duke of Burgundy. Charles has the means to help Edward regain this throne, but will he?