![]() ![]() ![]() Otherwise, this meandering narrative is plagued by the sophomoric use of proper nouns (Evil, Race, Sight, etc.), overwrought dream sequences and one-dimensional characters. The author is at her best relating in gruesome detail the sweeping effects of the Black Death on provincial life. Hailed as the Goddess Diana incarnate by her fellow nuns, who are revealed to be female members of the beleaguered Knights Templar, she continues her quest for her ""Beloved,"" Luc de la Rose, whom she must couple with in order to continue the Race. Following her sexual initiation into the cult of Diana, known as the ""Race,"" and the burning of her grandmother at the stake, Sybille flees to a nearby abbey, impersonates a nun and tends to the victims of the plague with her magical touch. ![]() Marie, whose true name is Sybille, confesses to her pagan upbringing at the hands of her loving yet hedonistic grandmother. Yet Michel is inexplicably drawn to the abbess, convinced of her holiness and determined to find her innocent. As the inquisitors prepare to burn her at the stake, Dominican scribe Michel is ordered to secure Marie's confession. In 14th-century France, Franciscan abbess Marie Fran oise is arrested by the Inquisition on charges of heresy and communion with the devil. ![]() Dracul, turns from fangs and bloodsucking to gnosticism and witchcraft in this paranormal romance-cum-medieval fantasy. ![]()
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