Beneath the shadow of impending war in fifteenth-century Wallachia, Ilona Csáki is betrothed to Prince Mircea, as her feelings blossom for her fiance's cousin Andrei and younger brother Vlad Dracula.
As Old Europe falls apart under the pressure of nomadic invaders, Marrah meets the nomad warrior Stavan. Their love for each other and their children dooms Stavan to fight his own people.