In very good condition. Dust jacket has slight wear. Inside is like new. ISBN 0385502818
The Year of Our Lord, 1275, Santes Creus monastery, Spain. Brother Lucas, a venal and moderately trustworthy monk, is put in charge of an exorcism. His former fellow acolyte, the brooding and magnetic aristocrat Francisco de Montcada, has returned from the Crusades possessed by demons. If Brother Lucas can drive out the demons, his monastery will be enriched by the Montcada patriarch and he himself will be made a bishop.
Gradually Francisco comes out of his possession and begins to spin the tale of his crusade: how he set out to free the soul of his dead brother, lost at sea before he could reach the Holy Land. Of his fierce friendship with his cousin Andres, a mighty warrior with an honest heart, and his intense love for Andres’s feisty sister, Isabel. (Doubleday; 2001; 320 pages)
