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Synopsis
It's 1192, and the Third Crusade is failing. Even so, Dante de Montcada, Spanish
knight, fights for Christendom. At the fall of St. Jean d' Acre, Frankish
vanquishers hold hostage the wealthy and high-born of Islam, their ransom named,
their lives held in King Richard's hand. Dante has loved ones among the
captives, which ignites a conflict of loyalties in a land long at war.
Richard the Lionheart, a warrior king and brilliant strategist, wears
the mantle of authority as a man born to it, a man whose dedication to purpose
is bone deep. When ransom is denied his captives, Richard is forced to make a
ruthless decision. Appearances must be maintained, images adhered to and
perceptions bolstered, no matter the cost.
Richard isn't alone in the
field of hard choices. Dante stands against king and kin to save the lives of
those he loves and finds that his choices are not without victims, his
allegiance not without cost, his course not without guilt.
Sometimes the knighthood proves a trial of extraordinary severity for a man of conscience.
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