
The City of Tears
A Novel
The Burning Chambers Series (Volume 2)Kate Mosse; read by Hattie Morahan
Macmillan Audio
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On Sale: 01/19/2021
ISBN: 9781250751669
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Following #1 Sunday Times bestseller The Burning Chambers, New York Times bestseller Kate Mosse returns with The City of Tears, a sweeping historical epic about love in a time of war.
Alliances and Romance
August 1572: Minou Joubert and her husband Piet travel to Paris to attend a royal wedding which, after a decade of religious wars, is intended to finally bring peace between the Catholics and the Huguenots.
Loyalty and Deception
Also in Paris is their oldest enemy, Vidal, in pursuit of an ancient relic that will change the course of history.
Revenge and Persecution
Within days of the marriage, thousands will lie dead in the street, and Minou’s family will be scattered to the four winds . . .
A Macmillan Audio production from Minotaur Books
PART ONE
AMSTERDAM & PUIVERT
May & June 1572
CHAPTER ONE
BEGIJNHOF, AMSTERDAM
Thursday, 22 May 1572
Old Mariken knelt before the altar of the chapel in Begijnhof, as...