Ravishing young Joanna de Granfort was to know no safety from the day she left her childhood castle home to be bride of a hateful nobleman. Soon she was rescued by Giles, a handsome knight whose past was as masked as his passion was naked.

Fate was to lead them on a startling search across the length and breadth of medieval Europe into the farthest reaches of the Arabian desert.

Set in a world of flamingly vivid history, here is an unforgettable romantic saga; here is the epic of a woman chased, coveted and claimed in her quest for a costly dagger and a priceless love...