The Song and the Sword

<p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In twelfth-century England King Richard the Lionheart has just ascended the throne and preparations are underway for the Third Crusade to wrest the Holy Land from Saladin's clutches.</em></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </em></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Young lovers Eleanor and Hugh are thwarted by their fathers. While Eleanor is married off to Baron Rolf a man who simmers with menace and will stop at nothing in his bid for power Hugh trains to become a knight and embarks on Crusade to escape an arranged marriage to a woman he despises.</em></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </em></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>From the stark walls of Dover Castle to the sanctuary of an austere priory and across tempest-swept seas to Normandy and the prosperous city of Messina Sicily Eleanor and Hugh must each brave a lonely and perilous journey of love and loss grief and endurance with only their own wits to rely on</em><em style=color: rgba(80 0 80 1)>. </em></p><p> </p>