The shadows of defeat and disaster lengthened over the rich countryside 13th-century southern France. Great manors lay in the hands of new and brutal masters, magnificent castles stood besieged by mighty armies, and no man or woman was safe from the scourge that lashed across the land.
Here is an unforgettable epic of men and women facing their ultimate testing of the spirit and of the flesh -- and above all, the enthralling saga of one man, Wolf of Foix, torn by love of a cause he could not abandon...love of a woman he was forbidden to have...and love of a people for whom he was asked to make the greatest sacrifice that pride could perform and honor could command...