Böcker av E. A. Stewart

How do you rise up at the dawn of the Inquisition?Pursued across medieval Languedoc by an unknown adversary, three unlikely companions join forces. Tomas the mercenary persists in his quest for revenge, but slashes deep wounds in his own soul. Jean-Luc, an exiled and heartbroken knight, searches for a man whose secrets might redeem him. Isabella of Valeros is falsely condemned for heresy, but to find her son, she must seek answers among the goodwomen, the so-called heretics beset by this new crusade. Separated, exposed, and hunted, Tomas, Isabella, and Jean-Luc must find their relentless enemy before he destroys them-and their families. Meanwhile, Simon de Montfort's army terrorizes southern Europe, flushing heretics from the hills, shouting over the voices of the troubadours.TREBUCHETS IN THE GARDEN, Book 2 in the Accidental Heretics series, continues the adventure from Book 1, Bone-mend and Salt where Tomas, Isabella, and Jean-Luc are entrapped in the Languedoc crusade, while Simon de Montfort prepares to ignite the next heretics' pyre in the summer of 1210. This revised third edition includes maps and a glossary of Occitan and historical terms.

When Idren the hunter leaves his Atlas Mountains home to work as a mercenary in Andalusia, his grandmother warns that it's his turn to change the world. Barefooted, with only a spear and a bow? For this stranger coming to a strange land in 1090, it seems ancient magic is needed to help an innocent hunter survive in this embattled new world.The Blue Door, a prequel novella in the Accidental Heretics adventure series, is the life story of a Berber tribesman who came to fight for the caliphate in Iberia, in the same era that El Cid fought the Almoravid invaders.This collection includes these additional tales from the Accidental Heretics world: "Peire and Miquel Go to Sea," which recounts the initial meeting of two Catalan fighters when embarking a ship to join the Second Crusade. "The Mad Woman of La Catalane," a tale in the Pyrenees foothills, when Isabella of Valeros struggles to escape the heretic hunters in 1212.This collection also provides a preview from the Accidental Heretics adventure series.

Heresy by intent or accident?BONE-MEND AND SALT, Book 1 in the Accidental Heretics series, launches an adventure of conspiracy and revenge amidst the crusade against the Cathar heresy in southern Europe in 1210.A Moorish mercenary-mutilated and left to die, harangued by his father's ghost-seeks revenge, since justice is impossible. A French knight, banned as a Cain, longs for respite but must use his sword to battle his betrayers. A Catalan widow holds her own fate, until a gold-sniffing priest accuses her of heresy. A hidden enemy traps these three in a crusade that's run amok.Dreams of love and hope become impossible when destiny propels these three into a hazardous journey across the Languedoc, where Simon de Montfort is spreading terror to flush heretics from their lairs, shouting over the voices of the troubadours.Bone-mend and Salt is the first book in the Accidental Heretics medieval historical fiction series, deep in the spice-and-intrigue world of southern Europe. This revised third edition includes maps and a glossary of Occitan and historical terms.