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A gruesome murder in a sleepy 14th-century English village sets the stage for a taut drama laced with witchcraft, depravity, and long-buried secrets.
England, 1324βa land rife with superstition and gripped by fear of the Churchβs holy wrath. When a beggar is murdered in the quiet village of Bottesford, his body draped across the altar of St. Maryβs church in a perverse pose of pagan sacrifice, the Popeβs Inquisitor General places the small hamlet in his sights.
Anxious to stave off the Inquisition, the Bishop of Lincoln dispatches Thomas Lester, son of a disgraced Templar Knight, to investigateβbut the Archbishopβs fanatical emissary has already arrived to conduct his own inquiry. Thomasβs investigation uncovers a viperβs nest of perfidious players: the secretive wife of the local lord, a notorious Irishwoman accused of witchcraft, and a depraved assassin who has left a trail of murder and blackmail in his wake. As this sordid drama unfolds, Thomas finds himself falling in love with a woman whose beauty is matched only by her defiance of the Churchβs fearsome power.
Is the killer poised to strike again? Will the Inquisition bring its hammer down on the hapless hamlet? And could there be a real witch hiding in plain sight? The race is on to conjure the truth.
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