Ten years have passed since Antonio, the great General Siena, fell in honorable battle. At the funeral of his beloved wife, Antonio's four daughters are told that he fell not with honor but beneath the blade of betrayal ad court politics. The youngest and most genteel, dear Bianca, tries dissuade them, but Isabelle, Alonza and Eugenia relent little. They will travel to the capital, in disguise infiltrate the court and discover the truth. Should betrayal be the word, they will enact bloody revenge. But the court is full of plots that not even the sisters have fully imagined and blood will spill no matter what the truth.