At a time when heresy is a heinous offense to be routed out with ruthless determination, Brother Bernard, an Inquisitor of Heretical Depravity, is accustomed to dispensing harsh justice. ut following the discovery of his superiors dismembered corpse, Brother Bernard finds that he himself has become the object of persecutionthanks to his passionate involvement with a mysterious suspect and her beautiful daughter.ursued as a heretic and implicated as a murderer, Bernard must make sense of this shocking crime and face his accusers. To fail at such a task means certain death.Recreating a world of intrigue, fear, and repression, Catherine Jinks brings 14th-century France to vivid life.