He was hired to rescue a noble lady from Arab captivity. The Franks know him by the name Daniel, while the Saracens call him Tyre— in their language, it means “bird.” He is clever and fast, but now he’s thrown off balance, because fate brought him together with a strange woman—the wife of a noble knight, who became poorer than he himself, surviving betrayal by a loved one and losing her home. And whether this meeting brings happiness—only dusty roads of Palestine know…