Jake Curran

When controversial American academic Paul Yelland is invited to speak at Oxford's Department of Criminology, it stirs up latent emotions campus-wide. And when he is found strangled in his room later that night, Lewis and Hathaway have plenty of suspects—but was his murder motivated by politics, ambition, or vengeance?

The battle begins as Isabella rounds up men to send to Prince John, while Robin and the gang do everything they can to stop her. Archer joins forces with his sister and sets a trap to snare Robin and Gisborne. But who's really pulling the strings behind the evil that's coming to Nottingham?

Isabella will go to any lengths to prove her loyalty to the Prince, and to win the Sheriff's job for herself. Meanwhile, suspicious news arrives from the Holy Land that King Richard is dead, and Robin squares up against his former mentor, Lord Sheridan, in an attempt to stop Prince John's hasty coronation.

There's a heat wave in Nottinghamshire and when Prince John blocks all the local wells the outlaws are forced to take desperate measures to save those at risk. Prince John discovers Robin and Isabella's secret relationship and orders Gisborne to dispose of them - and if he completes his task he'll be made the new Sheriff. Isabella proposes a life away from Nottinghamshire and Robin has to make a difficult choice about his future.