A crusade forgotten by history, tainted by the mark of the devil. The final volume of an epic adventure in the Holy Land.Gauthier and Osarias have reached Jebel Tarr, the city of the flagellants, where the breath of the Qa'dj now resides. They want to extinguish it forever, but can such a demonic force ever be destroyed? Meanwhile, the machinations of Guy of Lusignan, and his thirst for power and blood, have brought the Cross and the Crescent to the brink of renewed war, one that only Syria of Arcos, torn between her feelings for the Sultan and Gauthier, can still prevent...