Catherine LeVendeur is an independent spirit, fiercely loyal to both her faith and her family. The two sometimes conflict, but even though she has experienced joy and loss, her life remains committed to preserving what--and who--she loves. Catherine's loyalty is sorely tested, however, when she and her family return to France after a long absence, and discover a Knight Templar has been brutally murdered in their home--and someone is threatening to reveal Catherine's closely held secret about her family's Jewish roots. But Catherine never wavers--neither in her own Christian faith, nor her father's Jewish faith--and ultimately it falls upon her to discover who would kill a soldier of God and why her family would be targeted in such a horrendous fashion. A story filled with fascinating details of medieval life and the intricate interplay between the Christian and Jewish cultures of the time.