Two families locked together in a centuries-old struggle of good versus evil. The Taylor and the Bishop families have both been cursed by an evil wizard and are doomed to play out a savage struggle. As children, the Bishop sisters and their mother conquered the evil wizard, but now, as the two girls reach adulthood, a new threat has arisen, and the fight is about to become even more deadly.Tom Taylor has vowed to avenge his family's honor, erase all members of the Bishop family, and become the most powerful wizard of all time. Melissa Bishop is now grown with twin 13-year-old sons; she wants only to live in peace and forget the horrible experiences of her childhood. But when Tom is released from prison, she must call upon her old allies, Sterling and Stannis, to help her defeat Tom once and for all. The Bishops' Struggle is the first book in the new Bishops' Resolve trilogy, the second part of the evolving tale begun in the first three books of The Bishops' Sacrifice series.