The Christain religion had started to go down divergent paths and something had to be done to get it back on the straight and narrow. This book was one of my favorites because it had good character development, suspense, fluid story, and it taught some very important history about the early Catholic church.

If that is of little interest to you, then move on. This is historical fiction that explores a people in southern France, the Cathars, who dared challenge the early Catholic Church. Why ask a rock music fan if he likes opera and vice versa. One thing that I've learned about reviews is that not everyone likes the same things. In the present, another woman sees the find as a means to the political power she craves while a man who has great power will kill to destroy all traces of the discovery and everyone who stands in his way. As crusading armies led by Church potentates and nobles of northern France gather outside the city walls of Carcassonne, it will take great sacrifice to keep the secret of the labyrinth safe.

The book, he says, contains the secret of the true Grail, and the ring, inscribed with a labyrinth, will identify a guardian of the Grail. In the Pyrenees mountains near Carcassonne, Alice, a volunteer at an archaeological dig stumbles into a cave and makes a startling discovery: two crumbling skeletons, strange writings on the walls, and the pattern of a labyrinth between the skeletons, a stone ring, and a small leather bag.Įight hundred years earlier, on the eve of a brutal crusade to stamp out heresy that will rip apart southern France, Alais is given a ring and a mysterious book for safekeeping by her father as he leaves to fight the crusaders. July 1209: in Carcassonne a 17-year-old girl is given a mysterious book by her father which he claims contains the secret of the true Grail.July 2005. And when she meets Raoul, they discover a shared passion for the cause, for their homeland, and for each other. Sandrine, a spirited and courageous nineteen-year-old, finds herself drawn into a Resistance group in Carcassonne - codenamed 'Citadel' - made up of ordinary women who are prepared to risk everything for what is right. But Léonie stumbles across a ruined sepulchre - and a timeless mystery whose traces are written in blood.ġ942, Nazi-occupied France. Seventeen-year-old Léonie Vernier and her brother abandon Paris for the sanctuary of their aunt's isolated country house near Carcassonne, the Domaine de la Cade.

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