Someone is about to learn the secret of this world: Love, light, life and the forbidden knowledge which troubles the world to this day.

At the end of the ninth century the forces of Islam, Christianity and the Vikings clashed at the insignificant village of Hendaye, France where they had been locked in deadly combat for generations but, this was destined to be a very different fight.

This is the story of Michael, the boy prince, who constantly snuck off into the woods or went fishing instead of going to church and showed little interest in either his religion or becoming king. It is the story of his mother, Catherine, first the slave of the Moorish Prince Mohammed and later the unwilling Viking queen of Hendaye. It is the story of her illegitimate son Rupert, of her daughter Margret, the most intelligent of the Vikings, and of William, who became the love of her life.

Finally, these are the chronicles of Tulku the dragon, who was himself to become the stuff of legends, and above all else it is the story of living an inspired and courageous life in a very complicated world most of us do not understand very well.