Faithful One

Noor has unusual powers that others fear and covet, powers that she doesn’t know how to control. When her mother is accused of conjuring the jinn and burned at the stake by the Knights Templar, she believes her life is over.

But Noor’s notoriety has reached the ears of the Old Man of the Mountain, the Grand Master of the heretical Assassins, and he recruits her to become a Faithful One, luring her with the promise of revenge. She is trained to become a skilled Assassiyun, then sent to Jerusalem disguised as a lady-in-waiting in King Baldwin’s court with the mission of killing Templars, the sworn enemies of the Assassins.

When Noor discovers that her childhood friend, the young knight Rinan Cawthorne, is also on the Assassin hit list, she finds herself having to choose between what she’s been taught and what she truly believes.