When bullets start flying at a Union Square cafe, history professor Ella Chevalier can't believe they could be aimed at her...despite what the blue-eyed stranger tells her. Ella is stunned that her academic research is catching the interest of more than the PhD crowd - two medieval Orders, remnants of the Crusades, believe she holds the key to finding a mythical treasure - and only one cares whether she lives or dies! Ella can't believe she's in danger...but...