London, 1649.
Nan exploits her high-ranking position as Countess of Rochester to manipulate England\'s great divide, flouting Cromwell and establishing a Royalist spy network; while Frances and her husband Allen join the destit.
Horrified eyewitnesses to King Charles\'s bloody execution, Royalists Nan Wilmot and Frances Apsley plot to return the king\'s exiled son to England\'s throne, while their radical cousin Luce, the wife of king-killer John Hutchinson, rejoices in the new republic\'s triumph.
London, 1649