Christopher, known as the Last Templar, was a knight of the Crusades who after a betrayal broke his sacred code and defied God. For that sin, he was cursed with immortality. For more than eight hundred years he has been through every war and atrocity in human history-bitter, relentless, and bound to a mission of reluctant redemption. He battles both the seen and the unseen worlds. Now the modern world is beginning to notice him. Governments track his movements. Ordinary people start to idolize the myth to a startling extent. And as Christopher's long shadow falls across the present, the consequences of his existence begin to spiral beyond his control. Penance: First Light begins the story of an immortal warrior who has spent centuries trying to atone... and now must pay the dangerous price of being seen..