A SPIRITUAL JOURNEY OF THE MOST FRIGHTENING KIND. NORTHERN ENGLAND, 1204. GEORGE ASCALON, earl of Grasmere, returns home from the disastrous Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople an angry, broken and humbled man. His dream of living quietly ever after is interrupted when charged with one last quest, and it is nothing like what he experienced in the East and twice as frightening. Reluctantly, George takes up the sword of Ascalon one last time.