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Labyrinth (Languedoc, Bk 1) (CD Audio) (Unabridged)
Labyrinth - Languedoc, Bk 1 - CD Audio - Unabridged Author:Kate Mosse, Donada Peters (Narrator) In this extraordinary thriller, rich in the atmosphere of medieval and contemporary France, the lives of two women born centuries apart are linked by a common destiny. — July 2005. In the Pyrenees mountains near Carcassonne, Alice Tanner, a volunteer at an archeological dig, stumbles into a cave and makes a startling discoverytwo crumbling skelet... more »ons, strange writings on the walls, and the pattern of a labyrinth; between the skeletons, a stone ring and a small leather 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 fate of those called heretics eight hundred years before.
July 1209. On the eve of a brutal crusade sent by the pope to stamp out heresy, a crusade that will rip apart southern France, seventeen-year-old Alaïs is given a ring and a mysterious book for safekeeping by her father as he leaves to fight the crusaders. The book, he says, contains the secret of the true Grail, and the ring, inscribed with a labyrinth, will identify a guardian of the Grail. As crusading armies led by Church potentates and nobles of northern France gather outside the city walls of Carcassconne, it will take great sacrifice to keep safe the secret of the labyrinth, a secret that has been guarded for thousands of years.
Read by Donada Peters. 16 sound discs (ca. 73 min. each)« less