商品簡介
At Middle Temple, once a grand monastery for the Knights Templar and now a college for barristers, Will hunts for the illusive Holy Grail. This enchantment Professor Prospero calls Lapis Exillis is crucial in his quest to destroy the witch, Sycortax. The murder of a student during Will's budding play Hamlet sets detectives Will and Betts, his plucky best friend, on the trail of the killer. Curiously, Will finds clues within the original tale of the Danish prince to the Holy Grail. In the creepy realm of Middle Temple, Will encounters young explorer Walter Raleigh, future astronomer Galileo and ghostly apparitions of Hamlet's father and the lost princes. Betts' romantic involvement with Cax, Prospero's handsome apprentice, fuels Will's rage. Other troubles plague Will not the least of which is the death sentence on his father and uncle branded traitors to the Queen. At Stonehenge, Will's skill as a bard helps him unearth the third magical stone, the rune of Earth, hidden in the lost world of the Druids. Will and Betts relationship turns rocky as she chases after the cunning Cax. Caught up in a world of magic, mystery and danger, Will fights to save his loved ones as dark forces swirl around him.
