- Thirty
- years
- before
- the
- Spanish
- Inquisition,
- the
- seeds
- of
- hatred
- have
- sprouted
- in
- Castile.
- Suspicions
- fester.
- Rage
- churns
- beneath
- the
- surface.
- Viçente
- Pérez—a
- man
- who
- wields
- enviable
- power
- but
- harbors
- a
- shameful
- past—is
- the
- only
- one
- who
- can
- keep
- the
- tension
- from
- exploding
- out
- of
- control.As
- the
- Christian
- son
- of
- secret
- Jews,
- Viçente
- is
- in
- a
- hopeless
- position—charged
- with
- keeping
- the
- peace,
- but
- always
- suspected
- by
- the
- city’s
- Old
- Christians,
- unwilling
- but
- duty-bound
- to
- help
- the
- increasingly
- persecuted
- Jews,
- and
- to
- aid
- his
- king
- whose
- rule
- is
- threatened.When
- Viçente
- crosses
- the
- ruthless,
- power-hungry
- lawyer
- Marcos
- García
- de
- Mora,
- he
- makes
- a
- formidable
- enemy.
- García’s
- plan:
- to
- rally
- the
- common
- men,
- attack
- Jews,
- and
- purify
- Toledo
- by
- purging
- suspected
- heretics—the
- Christian
- descendants
- of
- Jews,
- converts
- like
- Viçente.As
- war
- breaks
- out
- between
- the
- king
- and
- his
- cousins,
- and
- García
- and
- his
- madmen
- rise
- to
- power
- in
- Toledo,
- Viçente
- falls
- in
- love
- with
- the
- mysterious
- Francesca
- and
- finds
- himself
- faced
- with
- impossible
- choices:
- love
- or
- duty,
- respect
- or
- intolerance,
- reverence
- or
- disdain
- for
- his
- ancestry.From
- the
- courts
- of
- kings
- in
- Naples
- and
- Castile
- to
- the
- chambers
- of
- Pope
- Nicholas
- and
- the
- torture
- cellars
- of
- Toledo,
- this
- gripping
- novel
- brings
- to
- life
- an
- era
- of
- little-known
- history
- in
- fifteenth-century
- Spain,
- a
- time
- when
- a
- rogue
- inquisition
- threatened
- to
- destroy
- the
- very
- soul
- of Toledo.
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