Trouble threatens Judith and Adrian as they dwell in a castle on the Marmara Sea south of Constantinople. While Judith longs to return to France, Adrian wants to stay and become castlellan for Nicetas. Yet events turn against them and when Leon and Matilde arrive, begging for help to regain her castle and find justice in France, they leave their seaside home and face hideous and unstoppable villany. Thomas and Gabrielle, dwelling on the island of...