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Faolan, sent on a mission by King Bridei to locate the cleric Colmcille, takes the opportunity to notify his fallen comrade Deord's family of the man's death, and his work for the king must be put on hold when he arrives to find Deord's indigent sixteen-year-old daughter and her infant, and decides to bring them to the safety of Bridei's court.

In alternating chapters, ambitious Lady Macbeth tries to bear a son and win the throne of Scotland for her husband, and Albia, their daughter who was banished at birth and raised by three weird sisters, falls in love, learns of her parentage, and seeks to free Scotland from tyranny in this tale based on Shakespeare's Macbeth.

Shakespeare's tragedy of prophecy and royal murder in medieval Scotland presented scene by scene in comic book format.