1307, Carlisle, EnglandYoung Allyson is the first to hear of the death of King Edward II during a battle with the Scots-but cannot reveal her knowledge lest she be exposed as a witch. When the man she loves, a Templar, returns from France with news of the disbanding of his order and the arrest of its leaders, she realizes that the heir to England might well betray the Templars to his own advantage. She must turn for aid to the one man she dare not...