Beautiful Jimena was little more than a girl when she was given in marriage to the man she loathed ��" Rodrigo Diaz, known as El Cid, Christian Spain’s greatest warrior hero, and the man who had slain her father.

Jimena had barely learned to play the role of wife when she was abducted by her husband’s hated enemy, Hasan was the brilliant, daring, superbly handsome Arab chieftain who had made her prisoner of his power - and of her own wakening passion.