Healed of a crippling affliction during a storm in 1180, Father Simeon of England risks everything to protect a child given to him by a mysterious hooded figure from the cruel designs of his fellow clergy...
The sequel to "Keeper at the Shrine", this novel is set in 12th-century Beverley, Yorkshire. Beverley Minster lies in ruin after a terrible fire and Father Simeon seeks financial help to rebuild it from a Jew, Aaron, who he protects during the 1189 m...
January 1191. The Yorkshire town of Beverley is in the grip of one of the harshest winters of its history, but the starving, disease weakened people take comfort in the knowledge that Cyrus de Figham, the evil canon who incited the previous summer's ...