Audio Book Description:
July 2005. In the Pyrenees mountains near Carcassonne, AliceTanner, a volunteer at anarcheological dig, stumbles into a cave and makes astartling discovery-two crumbling skeletons, strange writings on the wallsand the patternof a labyrinth; between the skeletons, a stone ring and a smallleather bag. Too late Alice realizes that she has set in motion a terrifying sequence of events and that her destiny is inextricably tied up with the fateof those called heretics eight hundred years before. July 1209. On the eve of a brutal crusadesent by the pope to stamp outheresy, a crusade that will ripapart southern France, seventeen-year-old Alais is given a ring and a mysterious book for safekeeping by her father as heleaves to fight the crusaders.The book, he says, containsthe secret of the true Grail,and the ring, inscribed with a labyrinth, will identify aguardian of the Grail. As crusading armies led by Church potentates and nobles of northern France gather outsidethe city walls of Carcassonne, it willtake great sacrifice to keep safe the secret of the labyrinth, a secret that has been guarded for thousands of years.
