A novel about the brave and honorable knight Hugo de Payne, about his unrequited love for the Byzantine princess Anna, and about his no less illustrious friends - the Spanish Marquis Juan de Montemayor Jorge de Cetina, the German Count Ludwig von Segenheim, the good Bisole de Saint- Omer, the one-eyed Roger de Montdidier, the Burgundian baron Andre de Montbart, the Serbian prince Milan Goradzic, the English Count Gray of Norfolk and the Italian Vicenzo Tropesi; about the terrible sect of murderous assassins and the conspiracy of the Narbonne Elders; about sorcerers and witches; about the terrible secrets of the Jerusalem dungeons; about the frivolous King Baudouin; about many glorious battles and valiant knightly duels; about the countless riches of King Solomon; and most importantly, how the knight Hugh de Payns and eight of his brave friends went to the Holy Land to create the powerful Order of the Knights of Christ and the Temple, or, in other words, the Templars.