A young boy weeps alone at the hardness of the world. His mother is dead, his sister enslaved, and his father far from home on a hunting expedition while their village burns. He sees riders through the mist, and hides until he hears one use a name that is almost like a magic spell: Sir Rhenand. Hope returns, for who could help him but the most famous of Knights Errant?Neither Rhenand nor the boy know that the raiders pillaging the Highlands are harbingers...