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March, 1097. Aveline de Valcros, a daughter of minor French nobility, has spent the last two years of her life caring for her older brother, who will never raise a sword again. Buried beneath her patience and docility is anger on his behalf, and the longer is has gone unchecked, the higher the flame is fanned.
June, 1095. Raphaël de Valcros, newly married and knighted, has never doubted his place in the world, nor his purpose: to fight for God. When the Saracens charge out of the forested dark, when his leg is ravaged, when he is helpless to prevent what he cherishes from making its swift escape, he struggles to find the blessing in losing all his blessed with.
May, 1078. A boy boards a ship from Ireland to Normandy. It is last time he will see the land of his father, and the last time he will be known as Aodh.