May 1192. Still travelling home from the Third Crusade, Robin Hood and Alan Dale reach the Duchy of Burgundy and are captured by a renegade knight. Taken across the Saône into the rival County of Burgundy, they enter a conflict of feudal loyalties, murder and competing interests connected to Richard I.
Robin uses negotiation and deception to advance the king’s cause, while Alan becomes committed to rescuing a woman held behind the defences of the Castle of Bones. Their objectives pull the company in different directions as the politics of Burgundy turn a passage home into another private war.