Rejected by society for his wild ways, Lord Sheringham is bent on avenging fate and coming into his fortune. But the very first woman he meets is Hero Wantage, the young and charmingly unsophisticated chit who has loved him since childhood.
Simon Beauvallet works his way from poverty to knighthood in early fifteenth-century England, becoming a confidante to the future King Henry V while engaging in a battle of wits and words with the lovely Lady Margaret.