As an unwed daughter, she knows she may hold the key to the barony's growth. But the household of her revered eldest brother isn't the only one which shaped her. She wishes to look forward, but Prince John is back in the High Peak and he's brought the past with him. 

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What could bring the most loyal daughter of the Peveril house to abandon what remains of her family?

 The youngest child and only surviving son of the House of Peveril. His mother hinted most of his life that he would best serve the family as a clergyman, but his brothers and mother are dead, his father is old, and he thinks he might actually have a path to power and influence.

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How far is he willing to go for glory? Will he accept his family for their failings and flourish with them? Or will he malign everyone until he has nowhere to turn but the wood?

Once a fearsome knight of King Henry II, he finds that many of his allies are either dead or replaced by younger men. He was a devoted father to all his children, except the two which remain at his side. He feels like a relic until an old friend blows in for the tourney.

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There a fresh wounds to patch but it is the ancient scars that are in need of the greatest attention.