The crusade is over, and relative peace has returned to the Holy
Land, yet the magic and afflictions that permeate it haven’t gone
away. When Gauthier of Flanders, now a wandering knight, stops in a
caravanserai and gives water to a Christian woman prisoner of the
Order of Assassins, he has no idea what evil is about to be unleashed
upon the world … nor that he will once again have to stand against a
deadly demon.