The final book in the Pagan Chronicles.
'The enemy. When will they come? What will they do? What does an army look like, encamped around a city? I've read so much, but I just can't imagine it.'
When he becomes scribe to Pagan Kidrouk, Archdeacon of Carcassonne, the delicate, bookish Isidore is plunged into the real world - the world of Pagan himself, Pagan's beloved Lord Roland, and Roland's enigmatic older brother, Lord Jordan. But the real world, Languedoc in 1209, is a dangerous place, for this is the year in which papal forces from the north begin their bloody crusade against the Cathar heretics. And the battle line is moving closer to Carcassonne.
