The titles in the Saint-Germain series to date are Hotel Transylvania (1978); The Palace (1979); Blood Games: A Novel of Historical Horror (1980); The Path of the Eclipse (1981); Tempting Fate (1982); The Saint-Germain Chronicles (1983), (collection of four stories); A Flame in Byzantium (1987); Crusader's Torch (1988); A Candle for D'Artagnan (1989); Out of the House of Life (1990); and Mansions of Darkness (1996).

Crusader's Torch (1988) leaps ahead to the twelfth century, where Olivia is now eleven hundred years old. Living in Tyre, she wishes to return to Rome, but the city is suffering at the hands of the Crusaders, most notably Richard the Lion-hearted. The walls are falling, and there is fever in the aqueducts.

Olivia is forced to flee an invading army led by Saladin. Attacked at sea, she nearly dies swimming to Cyprus.

In this novel Olivia's inevitably illfated love for a mortal man centers upon a Hospitaller knight who gives her his...