A doomed mission.
His mission: buy 500 peasant boys and return them to Acre to be trained as Soldiers of Christ..
Instead, the young Hospitaller Knight of Saint John must undertake a dangerous journey from the Holy Lands to a remote village nestled in the Alps, the \'Spine of the World\'.
Brother Foulques de Villaret just wants to stay in Acre and perform his sworn duties.
One Knight Justice must face his greatest fears or die trying...
His kingdom hanging by a thread.
A doomed mission