The son of a powerful French nobleman, Jean Claude sets his eyes on a young gypsy and arrives in time to witness his father's persecution of her tribe. Cursed into stone, his likeness is carved from the stone over a century later by a master stonemason. He awakens a cursed man out of time only to be tasked with saving the Templar Order in France. Hoping to find a cure for the curse that still plagues him and trying desperately to save the Templars, he finds himself drawn into the World of the Lianshae. But Francesca, still alive, isn't the young gypsy he fell in love with so long ago. As their love inexorably draws them together, they find that love, like everything else, will be challenged both by time and circumstance.