Mary Stewart brings the Dark Ages brilliantly to life once more in a startling reappraisal of the last days of Camelot. Far from being the scourge of Arthur, his bastard son Mordred actually strives to resist Merlin?s prophecy of doom. But he is thwarted by the schemes of his sorceress mother, Queen, Morgause, who has brought him up to be her revenge incarnate, and by misunderstandings beyond his control. Prophecy triumphs, and the confrontation that is as fatal as it is inevitable is played out against the darkened walls of the city of Camelot.