Sarah Holz

The Gourd and the Stars (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"Thou wert born, not a demon, but a light so bright that the darkness cannot touch thee."

So the physician monk Jehan d'Auterives tells his adopted daughter Zénaïde, a foundling once discarded out of superstition and fear. Taught medicine by him despite her sex as much as her disabilities, Zénaïde's unconventional destiny will take her from her childhood in a Norman monastery to medieval Paris and the royal court of Louis VII. But in this new world of chivalry and courtly love, pious Louis receives a dramatic prophecy that will send his young physician to Jerusalem and the chaotic eastern kingdom known as Outremer-"beyond the sea."

Although dispatched merely as a healer for Baudouin, Jerusalem's leprosy-struck king, Zénaïde soon finds herself drawn into the century-long conflict between the crusader kingdom and its Muslim adversaries, led by the charismatic Salah al-Din. To protect everything that she has come to love in this land of divisions, Zénaïde will need all her ingenuity and empathy to navigate the treacherous factions within Outremer's borders and without. But can she do so without losing her soul?

Or her life?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sarah Holz
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798223281696
• Artikelnr.: 69665209

Autorenporträt

Sarah Holz is a native of Buffalo, New York who now lives and writes in Pittsburgh when she isn't too busy reading. She is the author of The God's Wife and its sequels, Daughter of Eagles, and Children of Actium; as well as The Flight of Virtue.