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CATHERINE LEVENDEUR
SERIES
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COMES AS EPIPHANY
Catherine LeVendeur is
a young scholar at the Convent of the Paraclete, a convent famous
for learning and prayer...and its most famous abbess, the fabled
Heloise. Catherine's natural curiosity and individualism have always
set her apart and she has come to the convent to conquer her sin
of pride But service can come in many forms...A manuscript that
the convent produced for the great Abbe Suger has disappeared and
rumors have surfaced that the book contains sacrilegious passages
and will be used to condemn Heloise's famous lover - Peter Abelard.
Catherine must find the manuscript and discover who has altered
the text before it destroys all she holds dear.
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DEVIL'S DOOR
A wealthy countess lies
dying at the convent of the Paraclete, brutally beaten by unknown
assailants. Her last wish is to take the veil, to become one of
the order, but she is unwilling - or unable - to name her killer.
Catherine LeVendeur's curiosity and her keen sense of justice demand
that she find out he identity of the noblewoman's attacker.
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WANDERING ARM
The mummified arm of
St. Aldhelm has been stolen from the Salisbury Cathedral in England
and hidden somewhere in Paris, passing from pious to treacherous
hands by means of murder most foul. Catherine's husband Edgar is
approached to help find the Anglo-Saxon relic and bring in safely
home.
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STRONG AS DEATH
Ex-novice Catherine LeVendeur
and her Saxon husband, Edgar, desperate to have a child, go on pilgrimage
to pray at the fabled Spanish shrine of Santiago de Compostela.
They encounter mad monks, jongleurs, a possibly reformed whore,
and four elderly knights, two of whom are murdered.
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CURSED
IN THE BLOOD 
The fifth story in the
series finds Catherine LeVendeur venturing into the cold and tumultuous
homeland of her husband - only to realize the vast differences between
Edgar's family and her own. After making the pilgrimage to Compostela
and giving birth to a son, Catherine is looking forward to an idyllic
life at home in Paris. Yet her contentment is shattered when she
and Edgar receive news from his family that Edgar's two oldest brothers
have been ambushed and murdered.
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THE
DIFFICULT SAINT
When
Catherine's estranged sister's marriage to a German lord ends with
her being accused of his murder, Catherine knows she must do everything
she can to save her sister's life. And when Catherine and her brood
travel to Germany to begin sleuthing in a dangerously anti-Semitic
climate, it becomes clear that Catherine and Edgar's long-dreamt-of
life of peace remains in the distant future - if they live to see
it at all.
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WEAR A WHITE CLOAK
Catherine
LeVendeur is an independent spirit fiercely loyal to both her faith
and her family. The two sometimes conflict and while she has experienced
love and loss, her life is committed to preserving what peace she
can for those she loves. And that faith and loyalty will be sorely
tested when a Knight Templar is discovered brutally murdered in
their home after Catherine and her family return to France after
a long absence. Catherine's closely held secret about her family's
Jewish roots is threatened to be revealed. Catherine will not give
up the Holy Mother church ... but neither will she abandon those
of her family who have chosen to return to their fathers' faith.
And in order to save them all, Catherine will have to discover the
person who would dare kill a soldier of God and why her family would
be targeted in such a horrendous fashion.
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HERESY
When her dearest friend in the world, Astrolabe, the son of the fabled theologian Peter Abelard and Heloise, flees wrongful prosecution for the vicious murder of a young woman, Catherine's family takes him in to hide. But there are darker forces than murder at work here. Someone wishes to use Astrolabe to complete the destruction of his father's fame in the name of faith...and there are those that would see the destruction of the very order of Christian life...
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