In 1192, in Prince John's England, hunting on Crown land is grave crime. When Everard Blackthorne, the Sheriff of Nottingham, is commanded to investigate one such grisly murder, he becomes entangled in a dangerous game with a most mercurial adversary. Never-before-seen mysteries confront Everard Blackthorne, the Sheriff of Nottingham, culminating in an investigation that will lead directly into the climactic events of Nottingham Volume 3.