Richie Cathar's father, Alaric, was a renaissance man: an intellectual, explorer, archaeologist and historian. He was also a fantasist, absentee parent and drug abuser. Alaric named his son after Richard, Coeur de Lion, but left him only conflicting memories when he died. Now Richie is in search of his own role ... Following his father's trail to the Holy Land to research the Art of the Medieval Latin Kingdom, Richie's quest is to uncover the fate of Christianity's most sacred relic and the truth about his father.