Ismay de Breon is a proud and moral widow woman of 28, but when she reluctantly attends the Winter Feast of Lord de Lupe, she meets a most disturbing and fascinating young man--the King's younger brother, Duke Josselin, a seasoned warrior though just eighteen, a practiced lover though no rogue like his womanising brother. An intense youth who clearly desires her, despite their ten year age gap and difference in rank. Will Ismay continue with her dull but virtuous life, or will she let her own hidden desires run free and seek the Duke's bed in the topmost tower of Minsterbourne? Spicy medieval fantasy roughly resembling the Wars of the Roses period of medieval England.