This is the story of a passionate, powerful woman that history forgot - told through the unique talent of the world's finest storyteller. In an age of savage expansion in the Americas, Inés Suarez's husband disappears to the New World. Escaping the stifling restrictions of sixteenth century Spain, Inés follows him into danger. Arriving to discover that her husband has been killed in battle, she is quickly thrown together with Pedro de Valdivia, war hero and field marshal to the famed conquistador Pizarro.

Together they wage a terrible, ruthless war against the indigenous Indians of Chile - a struggle that will change Valdivia and his daring conquistadora forever...