Quinn de Sayerne vowed never to return home while his wicked father drew breath.
Melissande cannot believe that her liege lord has ignored her.
Quinn resolves to win the heart of his lady wife, no matter what the cost, and thence the seal of Sayerne.
But the overlord decrees that Quinn must wed Melissande, the beautiful but frosty heiress of neighboring Annossy.
Twenty years after his departure, the knight and crusader is summoned to claim his family holding after his father\'s death.
Quinn de Sayerne vowed never to return home while his wicked father drew breath