Hoodwinked
Sometimes the only way to fight injustice is with a few well-planned tricks ... and an abundance of arrows.
The story you know...
Lady Marion FitzWalter would never admit she’s been waiting for Sir Robin of Locksley to return – not to her uncle, not to the unimpressive suitors she’s turned away, and certainly not to herself. But she’s spent the last few years keeping one ear trained on rumors from the Holy Land and the other on the slow unraveling of Nottingham under its new power-hungry sheriff.
When Robin finally does return – wounded and grim – it’s to find his father dead and his estate in ruins all at the whim of the sheriff, Phillip de Marc. Once Robin's childhood friend, Phillip coldly claims the tragedy was due to Lord Locksley’s deep debts. Determined to confront the sheriff, Robin goes to Nottingham Castle.
Robin tries to keep his fury in check, but when he later defends a hungry boy caught poaching, his battle-scarred instincts take over. He kills the captain of the guard in a flash of violence – and in that moment Robin becomes and outlaw.
Sherwood Forest is awakening.
Old powers — quiet and still for nearly 600 years— are stirring once more, called upon by a man without gift or standing. A man who has always been overlooked and would do anything to change that… even if it means bargaining with what should remain buried. A man who would come to rule over that very forest as sheriff.
In this England, nearly everyone is born with a God-given gift—skills of trade and labor that sustain the common folk. But above them stands the gifted class, marked by rarer, more coveted abilities that shape power, status, and rule.
Lady Marion Fitzwalter is well-blessed. With a bow in hand, she does not miss. But in a world where such skill belongs to men of rank and warfare, her gift is little more than spectacle—admired, praised, and ultimately unused. She longs to prove it was meant for more.
Sir Robin of Locksley’s gift is harder to name, yet no less undeniable. It is of strategy cloaked in a trick. His quick wit and sharper cunning turn the tide of any encounter—whether in battle or in mischief.
But gifts alone cannot protect them.
What begins as an act of justice soon reveals a deeper danger. The sheriff’s power is no longer that of a man alone, and as the forest itself begins to stir, Robin and Marion realize they are not only fighting tyranny—but something far older, and far more perilous, than they ever imagined.