Three years after the Essex Dogs survived the Siege of Calais, the Black Death has torn through Europe, leaving the Dogs scattered.

Millstone and Thorp enlist themselves on a deadly mission to escort a princess to Castille. Romford, basking in new riches, finds himself living as a squire in the glamorous court of King Edward III. Loveday, whose businesses have been destroyed by the plague, is desperate to avoid returning to the life he vowed to abandon: fighting.

But you can't run from what's in your blood. When one of their own is threatened, the Essex Dogs must fight again.

The war that lasts one hundred years is going to end - for one of them at least...