Spring 1192. Robin Hood and his band of men travelling home from the Third Crusade find themselves in the lush wine-rich Duchy of Burgundy. When they are captured by a renegade knight and taken across the River Saone to the rival County of Burgundy they are plunged into a nightmarish world of treachery deceit and cold-blooded murder. While the cunning Earl of Locksley plots and schemes to advance King Richard's cause in the two Burgundies Alan Dale his loyal lieutenant and personal trouvère embarks on a private quest to rescue a damsel in distress and falls foul of the monstrous guardian of the Castle of Bones.

Part of the The Outlaw Chronicles series.