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The burning stone / Jack Whyte.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: [Toronto, Ontario] : Viking, 2018Description: xlvi, 544 pages : mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0670070009
  • 9780670070008
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • FIC
Summary: Fleeing the massacre of most of his family, young aristocrat Quintus Varrus arrives in fourth-century London not knowing who is to blame for the murders or who he can trust. He meets a young Irish woman named Lydia Mcuil and their lives quickly become intertwined and her father offers to set Quintus up as a smith while the young lovers get to know each other from a distance. But the assassins still hunt Quintus and a deadly ambush is barely avoided, but he does become friends with his rescuer, a military policeman known as Rufus Cato. Quintus learns the secrets of a powerful, ancient brotherhood, as well as secrets that may finally reveal the identity of those who murdered his family, and the shocking reason why.
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Prequel to the Dream of eagles series.

Fleeing the massacre of most of his family, young aristocrat Quintus Varrus arrives in fourth-century London not knowing who is to blame for the murders or who he can trust. He meets a young Irish woman named Lydia Mcuil and their lives quickly become intertwined and her father offers to set Quintus up as a smith while the young lovers get to know each other from a distance. But the assassins still hunt Quintus and a deadly ambush is barely avoided, but he does become friends with his rescuer, a military policeman known as Rufus Cato. Quintus learns the secrets of a powerful, ancient brotherhood, as well as secrets that may finally reveal the identity of those who murdered his family, and the shocking reason why.

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