Since becoming a father, Robert finds things have changed. Now with a wife in camp, and an infant daughter to keep safe, he must redetermine his priorities, as well as continue to gain back the trust and belief of the villages in Sherwood who are wary of Herne's Son now his blindness -disguised from birth by the Powers of Light and Darkness from even he - has been restored.
With news of a group of outlaws outside LIncoln boasting that they will advance into Sherwood and see off Herne's Son and his men to claim Sherwood as their domain, Robert prepares his men for an enevitable clash. But even he is not prepared for being caught in a shocking trap laid down for him by the one person he thought who would never seek to harm him...