ASIN: B00WF76RO4
Publisher: Undercroft Books
Pages: 356
—HONORABLE MENTION, FOREWORD REVIEWS' INDIEFAB BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD FOR HISTORICAL FICTION— A meeting of two worlds. A tale of forbidden love. A chronicle of heresy and crime. Set at the time of the Third Crusade, THE CULT follows the fates of Elise, Edmond, and Martin, three pupils of a learned English scholar who become caught in a web of deceit and threatened by an ancient Gnostic cult reincarnated in a new and monstrous form. Forced to separate, Elise and Edmond strive keep their love alive despite great opposition. One by one, each for a different reason, all three friends come to Arab-Norman Sicily, a rich and brilliant realm where Christians, Jews, and Muslims live in peace. In cosmopolitan Palermo, minarets rise beside church towers, the Norman king keeps a harem, and Muslims work with Christian clerics to recover classic texts. Here, Martin meets Khalil al-Din, the Arab ...
