Copyright 1980, 1996 Rose of Honor is a novel set in England in the fifteenth century, during the Wars of the Roses which pitted brother against brother and father against son as the two royal Plantagenet houses of York and Lancaster battled for the throne of the kingdom. A young and penniless knight, Sir John Redmond, joins the Lancastrian court to follow the young woman he loves, but he finds that gaining his bride carries a price of betrayal and violence which is too high for him to pay. Betrayed himself by another beautiful and passionate girl, Sir John ends by marrying her instead, and fighting throughout the first War of the Roses on the side of the rival house of York, while his true love marries a knight on the Lancastrian side. In the end John Redmond is faced with more treachery and bloodshed as the two women in his life come into collision yet again, but through it all he seeks to know what is right and honorable and somehow, to maintain the standards and ideals of a chivalry which has long since perished.