Having traveled halfway around the world, the participants of the Third Crusade find themselves in the Holy Land. Jerusalem is just a stone's throw away. But the path to the cherished goal was blocked by the walls of ancient Acre - a Saracen fortress, to the support of which countless hordes of the Egyptian Sultan Saladin are rushing. The swords and arrows of obvious enemies do not frighten Richard the Lionheart. A more serious threat is posed by the daggers of invisible killers - assassins. But the main danger lies in the spider web weaved by the duplicitous allies of the English king. Even if the young lion survives, a difficult journey awaits him. A path of no return. Sharon Kay Penman continues her fascinating medieval travelogue, begun in the novel "The Road to Outremer".