On this day, March 16, in 1244 over 200 Cathar believers were burned at the stake by the hand of the Inquisition in southern France. The fortress known as Montsegur. Their story is told in my novel Shadows of Montsegur.
After Andreva loses her parents to the fever in 1243, she is summoned to southern France to care for her dying grandmother and finds herself in the middle of the Albigensian crusade. Her loyalties and beliefs are challenged by those around her and especially by the Church she loves.
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