1206. After three years in a dungeon in the Syrian desert, Simon de Montfort returns to Normandy. But the price for his freedom has been the renunciation of his own soul, the commission of a horrible act whose consequences will haunt him beyond belief. life, throughout eternity. Eager to reach his humble country manor, Simon travels through a changing, tempting world, until he is reunited with his chaste wife, Alix de Montmorency, and a home that no longer feels like his own. Misfortune, remorse, fall from grace and the imminent war between France and England sink Simon and Alix deeper every day. Although his destiny is not to disappear from history, but to shine in the fight against heresy. Thus, the search for redemption will take them from Normandy to the south of France, to a land plagued by chaos, violence and religious rupture. To a divided society, sown with so much hatred that a copious harvest of pain and death is expected. To a war in which Simon de Montfort will have to fa