JUDITH MERKLE RILEY

En la Inglaterra medieval Margaret, la joven esposa de un rico terrateniente, dicta a un fraile el relato de su insólita vida. Hija de una pobre familia campesina, a los catorce años se vio obligada a casarse con un viudo, adquirio habilidades de curandera, fue acusada de brujeria y estuvo a punto de morir a manos de la Inquisicion.

Una fantástica historia de amor y magia que nos transportará a las más apasionantes pugnas dinásticas de la Europa del siglo XVI, a la época de Nostradamus. Sinopsis: Francia, 1556. Catalina de Medicis ha decidido liberarse de la amante de su marido, e

Sinopsis: Francia, invierno de 1674, bajo el reinado del Rey Sol. Geneviève Pasquier, de trece años, queda huérfana. Desesperada, decide tirarse a las aguas del Sena para acabar con su vida, pero es

Sinopsis: Inglaterra, finales del siglo XIV. El rey Eduardo III, hijo de Eduardo II y de Isabel de Francia, emprende una guerra contra Francia para reclamar su derecho al trono. Su deseo de ver aumentada su influencia en el continente se traducira en gran

Catalina de Médicis ha decidido liberarse de la amante de su marido buscando la cabeza inmortal de Menandro el Mago. Pero Nostradamus, tras averiguar la naturaleza de este brujo, se dirige a París pa

Corre el año 1356 y Margaret de Ashbury es raptada y obligada a contraer matrimonio con el hermano Gregory, un monje expulsado de su orden. Obligado a intervenir en la guerra de los Cien Años, Gregory desaparece sin dejar rastro. Margaret comprende entonces que está profundamente enamorada de su marido y decide recuperarlo a toda costa, pero sólo los poderes de la alquimia y la magia del amor lograrán salvarlos.

Magia y brujería en la corte del Rey SolFrancia, invierno de 1674, bajo el reinado del Rey Sol. Geneviève Pasquier, de trece años, queda huérfana. Desesperada, decide tirarse a las aguas del Sena par

The unforgettable Margaret of Ashbury returns in the second book of the trilogy that began with A Vision of Light.Margaret, a resourceful midwife, is living with the insufferable relatives of her third husband, Gilbert de Vilers, known as Gregory. She is carving out a life for herself and her daughters despite the hostility and greed of her in-laws. But when Gregory is captured in France and held for ransom, Margaret knows she must take actionher in-laws are too tight with money to be of any useso she teams up with her old friends Mother Hilde, the herbalist, and Brother Malachi, an alchemist on a quest for the secret of changing base metals into gold. Together, the trio plan to rescue Gregory and bring him back to London, where he and Margaret can start a new life away from his meddling family. And thus begins a wild romp across fourteenth-century Europe. Murderous noblemen, scheming ladies, truculent ghosts, and a steady stream of challenges plague the journey. Margaret will need not only her special gift of healing, her quick mind, and her independent spirit but the loyalty of her friends and the love of her new husband to carry them all safely home.

The first book in the series, this bestselling novel introduces Margaret of Ashbury, a fourteenth-century Englishwoman with mystical abilities Margaret of Ashbury wants to write her life story. However, like most women in fourteenth-century England, she is illiterate. Three clerics contemptuously decline to be Margarets scribe, and only the threat of starvation persuades Brother Gregory, a Carthusian friar with a mysterious past, to take on the task. As she narrates her life, we discover a woman of startling resourcefulness. Married off at the age of fourteen to a merchant reputed to be the Devil himself, Margaret was left for dead during the Black Plague. Incredibly, she survived, was apprenticed to an herbalist, and became a midwife. But most astonishing of all, Margaret has experienced a Mystic Uniona Vision of Light that endows her with the miraculous gift of healing. Because of this ability, Margaret has become suddenly differentto her tradition-bound parents, to the bishops court that tries her for heresy, and ultimately to the man who falls in love with her.