When a magic ritual goes awry at the end of the First Crusade, a group of Knights Hospitaller are mistakenly made immortal, doomed to be reborn after each death. The knights fight with sword and magic, and, like the Hospitallers they once were, they care for the sick and dying. Their foes are the Returned, banished mages who form a corporation in another dimension that’s hell-bent on destroying beauty, diversity, and tolerance in our world as completely as it has in their own. Paul, seneschal to the K-Nurse council, and his comrades are jaded from centuries of fighting and bearing witness to the great tide of human cruelty. When Paul finds a baby in a dumpster on a cold November morning, his life, and the lives of all the Knight-Nurses, changes forever. Although she is a spoiled child, and a tiresome teenager, Aurora reshapes the knights and the world around them. They will need every bit of her magic and her inspiration for the battles to come as the world slides toward tyranny and theocracy.