“The book is fascinating, bright, beautiful, generous in its picturesqueness... Maria Schönbrunn-Amor bravely and clearly writes her history of the 12th century, connecting, as befits a historical novelist, the great events of a distant era and the private lives of people who filled this era with their own passion and courage, cunning and nobility.” Denis Dragunsky In the era of exceptional personalities, immutable beliefs and all-consuming passions, the love of a woman and the hatred of a man determine the outcome of the struggle for Palestine.