Kurzbeschreibung

Im dreizehnten Jahrhundert beobachtet ein junger Troubadour, Bertran, in Südfrankreich die Ermordung des Gesandten des Papstes. Die Kreuzritter haben nun Grund genug, die Ketzer von Cathar, in Wahrheit friedliche Menschen, zu bedrohen. Bald wird Bertran nicht nur vom Papst verfolgt, sondern auch von einer bezaubernden Adligen...

Klappentext

A story of persecution and poetry, love and war set in thirteenth century southern France. A troubadour, Bertran, witnesses the brutal murder of the Pope's legate, and risks his life to warn others of the war that he knows is certain to follow this act. The lands of the peaceable Cathars - deemed heretics - are now forfeit and under threat from crusaders who have been given authority by the Pope to take the Cathar domains by force. But the Pope is trying to track Bertran down and so is somebody else: Elinor, a young noblewoman in love with Bertran but facing a loveless arranged marriage, flees her family and becomes a minstrel herself. Soon both Bertran and Elinor find themselves enveloped in a rising tide of bloodshed that threatens the very fabric of their society.