As the 11th century comes to a close, Castle Teadorica is a distant memory. Exiled in Iceland, the matriarch still holds court over the Bond though the sisters are scattered across Europe with their husbands fighting to maintain their properties in an ever changing feudal political landscape.

Pope Urban II has declared Holy Crusade against Jerusalem and Aoife and her sisters must find a way to leverage the winds of war to reestablish relevance in the transforming hierarchies of western culture.

The summer of 1096 marks their departure from Iceland after 6 months of planning to relocate to Normandy near Mont St. Michel where they will redefine the nature of finance amid the chaotic logistics of global war.