Description: At the end of Knight of the Sacred Lake, Lancelot has taken the Hallows from Avalon to protect them from the Christian monks who seek to destroy the Lady of the Lake. Broken-hearted by their parting, Guenevere reconciles with Arthur, although the fragile bond between them is threatened by a new presence at Camelot, for Prince Mordred, Arthur's son by his evil sister Morgan, has come to stay. As "Child of the Holy Grail" opens, Sir Lancelot returns to Camelot, desolate. He has lost the Hallows of Avalon, but cannot remember how they disappeared. Arthur has declared Mordred his heir (over Guenevere's protests) and prepares to make him a knight of the Round Table. He has even reserved for his son the Siege Perilous, the one unoccupied seat at the Round Table -- one reserved for "the Most Peerless Knight in all the World".

But at the knighting, when Mordred takes his seat in the Siege Perilous, a terrible darkness falls over Camelot, and the great Round Table, owned by the Queens of the Summer Country since time immemorial, cracks down the center. In the middle of the chaos appears a new knight, barely fourteen years old, who brings with him the Hallows -- which the Christians have declared to be the Holy Grail. The mysterious knight is a stranger -- and he may be living proof of the Queen's worst fear -- that Lancelot has a son by another woman. The scene sets into action the final cycle of the Arthurian legend -- the Quest for the Holy Grail and the Fall of Camelot -- which brings Guenevere to the brink of the most dreaded tragedy of all...and which may ultimately lead to her resurrection as the greatest and most powerful queen of the Isles.

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