AN AWARD-WINNING, #1 BESTSELLER IN RENAISSANCE FICTION"This absorbing tale... creates a vivid world that will draw readers in... " ~ Kirkus ReviewAs authorities outlaw rights, and difference becomes dangerous, a young Huguenot apothecary of unbreakable spirit, a mystic healer, and a hidden network of rebels search for freedom and light in the darkest of times.In the mysterious Cevennes Mountains of Languedo...

“This absorbing tale... creates a vivid world that will draw readers in..." ~ Kirkus ReviewsA French Huguenot apothecary’s legacy of secrets, a mystic healer’s inspiration, a fateful decision.In the mysterious Cévennes Mountains of Languedoc, France, 1695, Jehan BonDurant, a young nobleman forcibly held in a Dominican prieuré as a child, comes of age only to inherit a near-derelict estate and his Huguenot family’s dangerou...