![]() ![]() And so then, as always, I am carried back to that first December so very long ago. As always, hope is snatched away before it can take root. I pause and listen but no longer hear anything. ![]() I hear someone coming.It has happened before. The Mistletoe Bride and Other Haunting Tales: Unable to cope with his grief, Freddie has spent much of the time since in a sanatorium. In Freddie Watson's case, it took his beloved brother and, at times, his peace of mind. It robbed a generation of friends, lovers and futures. Sealed with a distinctive family crest, it contains just five words: SHE KNOWS THAT YOU LIVE.But before Minou can decipher the mysterious message, a chance encounter with a young Huguenot convert, Piet Reydon, changes her destiny forever. Nineteen-year-old Minou Joubert receives an anonymous letter at her father’s bookshop. ![]() In Freddie Watson’s case, the battlefields took his beloved brother and, at times, his peace of mind. World War I robbed England and France of an entire generation of friends, lovers and futures. It is a marriage that could see France reunited at last.Ĭarcassonne 1562. From the New York Times bestselling author of Sepulchre and Labyrinth-a compelling story of love, ghosts and remembrance. ![]() But now a precarious peace is in the balance and a royal wedding has been negotiated. Neighbours have become enemies, countless lives have been lost, and the country has been torn apart over matters of religion, citizenship and sovereignty. By turns thrilling, poignant and haunting, this is a story of two lives touched by war and transformed by courage. May 1572: for ten violent years the Wars of Religion have raged across France. ![]()
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