In the deep winter of 1780 Pennsylvania, Johannes De Turk returned from the Revolutionary War. His fearlessness, the warrior-memory of the deep past, had saved him. Time spins him back to those veiled lands of centuries past to 1460, to the East, to the origin of his bloodline: Prince Djem Sultan of the House of Ottoman, youngest son of Mehmed 11 The Conqueror. The Prince was born into the opulence of Edirne Palace, mercilessly trained in the ancient arts of combat and the Princely art of Rule. Across three continents he battled for the Empire and for its Throne, laying siege against mighty Rhodes, forging an unexpected alliance with the Knights of St. John, and combating the treacherous web of intrigue spun by the dark powers of his brother, in pursuit of his destiny.