When a beautiful young gypsy named Francesca falls in love with the son of the Hammer of Anjou, the right-hand enforcer for the French throne, things are bound to get complicated. Add a love spell and a blood curse from the same gypsy bloodline that are in conflict with each other and strange things start to happen. When Francesca meets a shapeshifting dragon and founds a fledgling empire of women, the world in which she finds herself will never be the same. Just as she begins to get used to things, influential women of the west contract the Wraith Riders of Arkenheim to help them defect to the east and seek the protection of the Immortal Lianshi Empress. But their escape goes horribly wrong, nearly resulting in the death of the Vordoshan ruler. The powers in the west are forced to take action that will have dramatic consequences for the Lianshi and her fledgling empire of women. Jean Claude set his eyes on a young gypsy and arrived in time to witness his father slaughter her tribe. Cursed into stone, his likeness is carved from stone over a century later by a master stonemason. He awakens a cursed man out of time only to be tasked with saving the Templar Order in France. Hoping to find a cure for the curse that still plagues him and trying desperately to save the Templars, he finds himself drawn into the world of the Lianshae. But Francesca, still alive, isn't the young gypsy he fell in love with so long ago. As their love inexorably draws them together, they find that love, like everything else, will be challenged both by time and circumstance.
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