In a cold, gloomy castle where all the clocks have stopped, a wicked Duke amuses himself by finding new and fiendish ways of rejecting the suitors for his niece, the good and beautiful Princess Saralinda.

Poor and idealistic, young knight Willem of Dole finds his introduction to the court of Holy Roman Emperor Konrad III offers dangers as well as dazzling possibilities, especially when his sister Lienor is considered for the role of Empress.

The adventures of eleven-year-old Adam as he travels the open roads of thirteenth-century England searching for his missing father, a minstrel, and his stolen red spaniel, Nick.

When a minstrel's adopted dragon pup is stolen by a wicked showman, the minstrel's songs suffer accordingly.