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293 p
Summary:
A story of persecution and poetry, love and war, set in 13th-century Southern France. Troubadour Bertran witnesses the brutal murder of the Pope's legate, and risks his life to warn others of the war that is certain to follow - it will be a tide of bloodshed that will last 20 years and divide the country in two. The lands of the peaceable Cathars - deemed heretics - are now forfeit. As a troubadour, Bertran can travel without suspicion from castle to castle, passing word about the coming danger to the Cathars. But the Pope has discovered that the murder had a witness, and is trying to track Bertrand down. In the meantime Elinor, a young noblewoman in love with Bertran, leaves her comfortable home and family and becomes a troubadour herself in a desperate attempt to rescue Bertrand from the danger that is encircling him