War between two claimants to the throne of Augston leaves chaos at the homefront. Brynhild Von Meiser knows this when the body of a stranger is found dangling from a tree on her fief. Is the murder connected to the fake coins her friends, Alfred and Bigitte, discover down the road from her fief? Or the missing guard that her beloved Karl is now looking for?
With most lords fighting each other on foreign land, it is left to Brynhild, Karl, Alfred, and Bigitte to rally everyone together and preserve Augston as a country worth fighting over.