Rodrigo is everything a hero should be: handsome, brave, and with a brilliant future before him. Son of a nobleman, he combines his royal upbringing with his friendship with the King’s son and successor to the throne, Sancho, and secret visits to his beloved Gimena, whose father zealously forbids their courtship.
But upon King Fernando’s death, Rodrigo finds himself caught up in a world of conspiracies that threaten to cost him everything he values most in life...