Author: katemosse
Following #1 Sunday Times bestseller The Burning Chambers, New York Times bestseller Kate Mosse returns with The City of Tears, a sweeping historical epic about love in a time of war. Alliances and Romance August 1572: Minou Joubert and her husband Piet travel to Paris to attend a royal wedding which, after a decade of religious wars, is intended to finally bring peace between the Catholics and … is intended to finally bring peace between the Catholics and the Huguenots. Loyalty and Deception Also in Paris is their oldest enemy, Vidal, in pursuit of an ancient relic that will change…
From a New York Times bestselling author who is “a master storyteller” (Madeline Miller, author of Circe): Piet and Minou form an uneasy alliance as religious war wages in 16th-century France — but as tensions come to a head, they find themselves on opposite sides… “The history is engrossing” (Kirkus Reviews).
A New York Times bestseller with over 11,800 five-star ratings on Goodreads! This “epic adventure” (Booklist) intertwines the stories of two women living 800 years apart, each tasked with protecting the location of the Holy Grail. A “page-turner… Fluently written” (Publishers Weekly).
From the New York Times bestselling author of Labyrinth-“a rich brew of supernaturalism and intrigue.”(Kirkus Reviews) In 1891, young Léonie Vernier and her brother arrive at the home of their widowed aunt in Rennes-le-Bains, in southwest France. But nothing is as Léonie had imagined. Their aunt is young, willowy, and beautiful, and the estate is a subject of local superstition. Villagers claim … of local superstition. Villagers claim that Léonie’s late uncle died after summoning a demon from the old Visigoth sepulchre on its grounds… More than a century later, Meredith Martin, an American graduate student, arrives in Rennes-le- Bains…
“An epic tale of mystery and adventure” (Library Journal) with nearly 2,200 five-star Goodreads ratings: Amid the dangers of World War II, a group of women code-named “Citadel” risk everything to smuggle refugees away from their Nazi-occupied homeland. But an ancient secret threatens their mission…