The King of Scotland is dead. As the nobles fight over succession, a boy grows to manhood in a divided land, in a family torn apart by ambition and betrayal. Civil war threatens as powerful Scottish families jostle for power, not knowing that King Edward of England, driven by an ancient prophecy, has set his own plans of conquest in motion. The boy's path will never be smooth—he will serve his enemy and betray his friends before he finds himself.

But destiny is waiting to claim him. His name is Robert the Bruce, and his story begins in Insurrection.