Into the bloody turbulence of the Third Crusade rode Blondel, minstrel and swordsman, following his master Richard the Lion-Hearted. With a nose for adventure, an eye to rise above his station, and a passion for a highborn woman, he found his talents pitted against powerful enemies — not only the Saracens, but a crafty duke and a brutish baron...

Blondel tested his mettle in the heat of battle until he found himself embroiled in his most perilous adventure – the quest for a lost king and the tormenting secret buried at his birth.