Hunted by a powerful English earl, Angus Rainey flees Scotland after the battle of Falkirk. He eventually arrives in the Holy Land, where he joins a caravan traveling the fabled trade routes to Cathay. His adventures continue on to the Land of Nihon, where he assists a disgraced nobleman regain his rightful place and acquires the hereditary sword of the Raineys. But the English earl's reach is greater than Rainey knows.