1. Prologue

The world at the time of the Middle Ages. It was a time when bloodshed infested the globe, when power was wielded by those who commanded vast armies, those who constructed impregnable fortresses, and by those who could pull the strings of the planet.
Young, daring U.S soldier Dan Mason, and beautiful, intelligent college student Diana Somer are plunged into a world a millennium away, in a quest to unravel the deepest, darkest and bloodiest secrets of the Crusades. Secrets that have changed the course of history. Secrets that have been locked away for a thousand years. Secrets that have shaken the world.

The year is AD 1097; the season, fall; the world, in turmoil...