A fast-moving medieval Fantasy-Adventure. Bennett, a knight of the White Tower, and Stella, a Romany girl with a deadly knife, discover an unexpected love together. Their new marriage is complicated by the rescue of Palima, a Mistress of War, who was imprisoned within a stone ages in the past for her part in a battle against evil. Can Bennett cope with a stranger dwelling within his new wife's head? And can the three of them rally the forces of the Romany and overcome Mandrake, a power-hungry man, who prolongs his life by absorbing the life-energy of the men and women who die on his followers' obscene altars?