When they find out that Gisbourne has a stash of gunpowder, they infer he intends to commit a mass murder to draw Rob and his clan to a centralized place. Apparently out of desperation, the woman committed suicide. Doing further research on Gisbourne, they learn that he once was extremely controlling of a woman he was engaged to. She follows a series of clues to Gisbourne’s carriage, and steals all of his personal possessions. While in disguise, she hears the news that Nottingham’s sheriff has enlisted Gisbourne to track down Rob and his crew. They enter town, learning that Gisbourne, a thief from London, has been sighted nearby. After joining the band, Scarlet tells Rob about a secret passage into the prison of Nottingham Castle, where a wrongfully arrested boy has been imprisoned. In the background, he eagerly awaits the return of his father, King Richard, from a battle in Jerusalem, and a return to politics as normal. Finding no political recourse to dethrone John, Rob has resorted to the life of a vigilante, stealing from John’s rich allies to recover the wealth of the poor. Now running Nottinghamshire, Prince John has hiked taxes solely to enrich himself. Rob is of high political standing, technically, the Earl Huntingdon of Nottinghamshire, though he was forced out by a political strike in which Prince John accused Rob’s father of betraying the kingdom. Bitterly, she becomes an outlaw, passing as male to avoid legal incrimination. After catching her, he delivered an ultimatum: either she admit her crime and go straight to jail, or redeem herself by joining his clan. A number of years ago, Scarlet, then an amateur thief, had fumbled an attempt to steal from Rob. The novel begins by introducing the primary tension between Rob and Scarlet. Together, they face off against the antagonist Gisbourne, a thief consumed by greed, while dancing between a succession of revelations about each of the characters’ pasts. With “Rob,” she wanders Sherwood Forest outside Nottinghamshire, concealing that she is gradually becoming more interested in Rob himself than his moral mission. Updating the classic story of Robin Hood with a romantic twist, it follows one of the moral thief’s protégés, Scarlet, who poses as a man in order to join the band of Robin of Locksley after the vigilante blackmails her to join him. Scarlet is a work of English folklore by A.C.

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