The year is 1098AD. Two lives will be brought together by a fate that will take them to the heights of love and the depths of damnation - and propel them through time right up to the modern day. Zoe is a Byzantine princess, beautiful and chaste, and condemned by her father to die. She is to be sacrificed to The Guardian, the unholy and undead secret benefactor of Byzantium since time immemorial - and there is nothing she can do to avert her doom. Sir Geoffrey is a Frankish knight known as The Wolf of Christ due to his grim accomplishments on the battlefield. Bearing a broken heart, he has come on the First Crusade with his loyal men to find death at the hands of the infidels.