From the back cover: Out of the shadowland of legend and into reality comes Arthur, the man beneath the armor. Bedivere, his boyhood friend and life's companion, tells the true story of the Pendragon himself, the wonders of his rise, the secrets of his lineage, the triumphs of battle and the tragedy of betrayal and defeat. And, here is Camelot - as you've never seen it - that society of flowing light in the Dark Ages where Arthur reigned with Guinevere, the Queen, too beautiful for any one man. Here too is Lancelot, noble knight and friend who loved his monarch's wife and lived to rue it, and Celidon the Merlin whose network of spies worked with such speed and brilliance that men called him magician. From devoted scholarship and with masterly skill, Catherine Christian gives the treasured role new meaning.