Gloucester 1216
When nine-year-old Henry, son of King John, is crowned in St Peter’s Abbey, Gloucester’s Jews dare to hope for peace. Instead, a new wave of fear begins.
Mirabelle, a woman of increasing influence, fights to hold her family together as rumours of murder circle her name. Tzuri’s forbidden love for Vernisse, a Christian draper’s daughter, threatens to tear his fractured household apart. And Ozanne, bold and restless, flees to the Holy Land for passion and freedom.
As persecution mounts and the old matriarchs fade, long-hidden truths finally rise as a deathbed confession exposes the last secrets of the le Riche family.
CHRISTINE JORDAN 