About the book: 2016 / The eldest of the sisters, Agnes, leaves with her father for England in order to see the world and find herself a rich husband. She has no idea how her thirst for new experiences will turn out and how desperately she will want to return to a quiet, measured life in her native Brittany. Two brilliant men are fascinated by her - the Earl of Derby, a loyal subject of the king, and Viscount Toverton, who joined the rebellious barons. The situation in the country is heating up, and Agnes is forced to make a choice: which party she belongs to. The middle of the sisters, Matilda, is madly in love with the forest and spends all her free time in it with her young friend, Gerik. One day, returning from another walk, Matilda finds her native village in flames: several mercenaries came to the village and attacked her house. The younger sister and brother disappeared without a trace. Matilda and Gerik leave the village with the intention of finding them. Beatrice, calm and pious, dreams of retiring to a monastery, despite the fact that she has a fiancé, whom everyone already considers almost a husband. A tragedy unfolds before the eyes of the shocked girl, but Beatrice does not lose her head and manages, together with her brother, Tristan, to hide from the cruel mercenaries.