The main conflict of the Middle Ages, the Hundred Years War... She determined the course of European history. "A mountain of books has been written about her, but this one is unlike anything else," admires an expert at the international Society for Historical Romance. Combining the best of Conan Doyle's historical fiction and modern brutal action, David Gilman actually created a new subgenre. England, 1346. Bricklayer Thomas Blackstone and his brother are doomed to hang in a noose. The neighbors who cooked on the land slandered the young people, accusing them of rape and murder. But they were lucky - they are the sons of the most skilled archer and they themselves masterfully shoot arrows. Now King Edward III and the Black Prince of Wales need every such warrior, no matter what he does there. The monarch and his heir are put forward on a campaign against France, absolutely convinced that her throne belongs to them by right. Together with them, the Blackstones begin a war that will drag on for more than a century...