The Talisman

The treachery of friends; the nobility of enemies; the steadfast devotion of an impossible love; this romance of the days of chivalry has all the powe...

King Richard lies mortally ill in the Christian camp. Sir Kenneth, carrying terms for an honorable peace with the Saracens, has fallen in with one of...

Richard is near to death. While waiting at Engaddi for Ilderim, who has gone to fetch a Saracen physician he claims can cure the king, Kenneth is reun...

While waiting for the Talisman's elixir to cure King Richard, El Hakim reveals to Kenneth that the other princes have offered Saladin a Christian brid...

Set to guard Richard's standard, Kenneth, the victim of a hoax, deserts his post and the standard is stolen. Condemned to death, he is saved by the in...

Kenneth has been taken to Saladin as a bond slave. Edith is determined to find a way to save him.

King Richard is surprised to receive a gift from Saladin, a slave leading the hound Roswal. Outside the king's tent, the murderous Charegite awaits hi...

Edith has still not returned to the Christian camp, where King Richard has challenged the treacherous Montserrat.

Kenneth, revealed as the natural son of the King of Scotland, is to fight Montserrat as the champion of King Richard.