About the book: year / "Salah ad-Din, commander of the faithful, Sultan, strong in help, ruler of the East, sat at night in his Damascus palace and reflected on the wonderful ways of God , Who lifted him up on high. The Sultan remembered how in those days when he was still small in the eyes of people, Nur ad-Din, the ruler of Syria, ordered him to accompany his uncle, Shirkuh, to Egypt, where he moved, as if led to death, and how, against his own will, he achieved greatness there. He thought about his father, the wise Ayub, about his brothers the same age, all of whom had died except one, and about his beloved sister. Most of all he thought about her, Zobeida, his sister, taken away by the knight whom she had loved, loved to the point of being ready to destroy her soul; yes, about a sister stolen by an Englishman, a friend of his youth, a prisoner of his father, Sir Andrew d'Arcy. Carried away by love, this Frank inflicted a grave insult on him and his house. Salah ad-Din then vowed to return Zobeida from England, he made a plan to kill her husband and capture her, but, having prepared everything, he learned that she had died. She left behind a baby - at least that's what his spies told him, and he believed that if Zobeida's daughter was alive, she was now a grown girl. With strange insistence, his thought kept returning to the unfamiliar niece, his closest relative, although half-English blood flowed in her veins...” The book was also published under the title “Princess of Baalbek».