The ambitious plans of the Duke of York collapsed into dust. He himself was executed by his enemies, and his head in a paper crown was impaled on a spike above the castle wall. King Henry VI is still captive, but Queen Margaret leads a victorious multi-ethnic army advancing from the north—and it seems there is no force that could stop her from taking London. Yet after dealing with her father, Margaret unleashed her sons. Edward March, the new Duke of York, declares himself King of England—a king by right of blood. And now alliances among aristocrats form and fall apart; betrayals are carried out and destinies broken. Civil war seems to live its own life—and there’s no reason to hope it will ever end.