Crusader's Torch Author:Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Ambitious in its scope and provocative in its content, the saga of Count Saint-Germain is a monumental feat of the imagination. Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's powerful and evocative novels have captured Saint-Germain throughout his long existence, from the temples of ancient Eygpt to our present century. — Crusader's Torch is a short visit to the... more » long life of Olivia, who has as great a capacity for practical compassion as St. Germain himself. Caught up in the hysteria of the Crusades, Olivia seeks to leave Tyre and return to Rome; this proves to be far more difficult than she had expected. Olivia braves the church, shipwreck, various curious/suspicious/greedy persons, and the dangers of travel during the Crusade to be with her love, a former Hospitaler Knight who has lost everything - even his name - to the ravages of a mysterious leprosy-like disease.« less