In the backstreets of London’s City hides the bank of Monsalvat—unremarkable, but extremely rich and influential. When poor student Ellie Stanton receives a letter from it inviting her to a job, she grabs the luxurious opportunity. But soon the girl realizes that the bank’s vaults hide more than just treasures and valuable papers, and that she was hired not because of her business skills.
This story began eight hundred years ago, when an unknown knight challenged a sinister organization that sows discord and plays kings like pawns. The secret war for power over the fates of peoples has been going on for many centuries, and Ellie was doomed to fight in it even before she was born…