Morgana is freed of any blame for the death of Lady Edith, saved by the intervention of Queen Eleanor. But there there is a price to pay for this freedom, when she is commanded to marry d`Raconville, and it seem he is reluctant as she is about the match. However the marriage takes place, and she finds herself the lady of Castell Felyn, and also stepmother to d`Raconville`s heir, his daughter, Alina. But her perils and adventures are far from over as she becomes ever embroiled in danger resulting in her incarceration at the Priory of Wydda, the very place her own mother, Rhannon, was inprisoned in and died. The place she had dreaded all her life. But it is here that she will find the truth about herself and her mother`s fate.

It is her mother`s kin who come to her rescue, and take her to her mother`s home, Plas-yr-Hyfred. It is there she comes face to face with her cousin Rhodri ap Bedwas.

Mad with anger and grief over the murder of his half-brother, Frith, by Rhodri`s kin, Crespin has vowed to burn to the ground Rhodri` s maenol and put his kin to the sword.

Morgana finds herself caught in the middle of mayhem, and fears for her life by her husband`s hand, for she is Rhodri`s kin also, as is the child that she carries.

Here at Plas-y-Hyfred her fate and the future of her un-born child will be resolved either in life or death.