Georgetown University English Lit professor Ian Ousby fled England in fear for his life. His championing of classic literature and manners had incensed militant feminists, radical Muslims, and a UK government subservient to both groups. Ousby found refuge in America under a sympathetic conservative Administration. Until he launched the Excalibur movement, inducing young men to embrace Arthurian masculinity, chivalry, and Christianity, and young women to support them as traditional housewives and mothers. Excalibur's breakaway success has once more put Ousby in mortal danger, this time with a ghostly twist?near fatal appearances by his first and one true love, Laura.

It's a mystery only Mark Tristan and Neil Cork?and their beautiful, formidable new associate, Raquel Valdez?can solve while bodyguarding Ousby ahead of a massive Excalibur Rally on the Mall. But their investigation soon rises to something far more cataclysmic?a potential war with Britain and a deadly threat against America, initiated by a fanatical mastermind. And the key to his plot lies in a wartime trauma Tristan thought he'd buried forever, and may not survive again.