While on the lam, she falls in love with Niall, who somehow feels her presence and returns her love. However, once she completes the translation, Grace will still need a leap of faith because her love may not be enough to provide her with the strength to stop Parrish from his fiendish plot. Linda Howard has a reputation for writing some of the best romance novels today. Ms. Howard should gain much recognition for this classic tale. With only the clothes on her back and her laptop computer that contains all the documents and notes from her current project, Grace flees into the night.
Grace is an innocent when it comes to the world.
The stereotypical academic, she was only aware of that which was relevant to her research. With determination, and a little help from friends, old and new, she manages to escape and to stay out of harm's way long enough to continue the research on her project. She knows with certainty that the ancient documents, relating events following the dissolution of the Knights of the Temple by Pope Clement V in 1307, contain some secret so powerful that the head of the Foundation was willing to kill for it. This story is exceptional, the plotting so skilled that you experience along with Grace her panic whenever she's nearly caught, her elation as she uses some newly learned skill to evade her pursuers. Interspersed with Grace's story is that of Black Niall, illegitimate half- brother of Scotland's King, Robert of Bruce.