A Knight's Tale: Montargis

France, 1266. Will and Stephen are safely ensconced at Montargis Abbey, a Dominican convent in a placid town two days' ride south of Paris, where Lady Eleanor has chosen to live out her days in peace and seclusion with her young daughter. Will and Stephen fall into a pleasant routine of chopping wood and beekeeping, while Wilecok cheerfully keeps the small household running with his work in the kitchen. It's in many ways an idyllic life, and one that Will could not have predicted. And when Kenilworth Castle falls after a long siege, it seems that the war with the English Crown that the Montforts spearheaded has well and truly ended.

But the sudden reappearance of Simon, as he and his younger brother Guy both drift back separately after escaping house arrest in England, brings a complexity to Will's life, as he is still passionately attracted. Even as he and Stephen grow closer and more deeply in love, the shadow of Simon periodically falls over their relationship. A sudden, horrific act of murder in the year 1271, Will's 25th year, brings the problem of Simon into deeper focus. In the aftermath, Lady Eleanor commands a reluctant Will to journey to a castle in southern Tuscany to visit her probably dying son. It's here that he will learn a devastating truth about Simon's misdeeds at Kenilworth before he arrived there, a truth that Will has not wanted to face, and that changes everything.

This sequel to A Knight's Tale: Kenilworth spans another six years in Will and Stephen's lives together, and ends in the South of France, where the mystery of Stephen's tragic past is finally laid to rest.