Widowed at twenty-five, Lady Cassandra Baratheon returns to King’s Landing clad in mourning black, accompanied by her young son and burdened with the wealth and influence left to her by her late husband, Lord Desmond Redwyne. Once celebrated as the Storm Rose and counted among the great beauties of the realm, she has grown weary of admiration. Men see her beauty, her fortune, and the powerful blood that runs through her veins, but none seem to see the woman beneath.