Arn Magnusson has risen in the ranks of the Knights Templar during his twenty-year exile to the Holy Lands and has become known as a man of compassion, strength, and faith, but nothing can lessen the pain of separation from his beloved Cecelia who is confined to a cloister back home. When Arn finally becomes a free man he is uneasy about the fate that awaits him and uncertain whether Cecelia still lives.
