Crusader's Torch
by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Chronicles of Atta Olivia Clemens (2), Saint-Germain Cycle: Publication Order (8), Saint-Germain Cycle: Chronological Order (Middle East (1188–1214))
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In the year 1189 AD, battle rages on the islands of Crete and Cyprus; Saladin sits in Jerusalem, threatening Antioch and Tyre alike; Richard Couer de Lion rules England and France; and the Pope talks of preaching a new Crusade. Olivia lives in Tyre, but dares not face its occupation by Islamic forces. She is determined to return to the city of her birth..and death: Rome, the Eternal. Accompanied only by young Valence Rainaut, a Knight Hospitaler who much against his will has fallen in love show more with her, she makes her desperate way by land and sea through a world ruled by Death..and by men whose bloodlust runs stronger than her own. show lessTags
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This is the second of three books featuring Olivia Clemens; they're a spin-off of Yarbro's Saint Germain series. It's set in 1190 AD, when Olivia has been living in Tyre in the Holy Land, which is being invaded by Crusaders. This is the story of her harrowing journey home to her native Rome.
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Chelsea Quinn Yarbro was born in Berkeley, California on September 15, 1942. She graduated from San Francisco State College in 1963 and worked as a demographic cartographer until becoming a full-time writer in 1970. She writes horror, science fiction, and fantasy novels including Time of the Fourth Horseman, To the High Redoubt, Spider Glass, show more Arcane Wisdome, and The Saint-Germain Cycle series. She has received several awards including a Life Achievement Award from the Horror Writers Association in 2009 and a Life Achievement Award from the World Fantasy Convention in 2014. In 1997, the Transylvanian Society of Dracula bestowed a literary knighthood on her. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Crusader's Torch
- Original publication date
- 1988
- People/Characters
- Atta Olivia Clemens; Niklos Aulirios
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- Fiction and Literature, Horror, Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Romance
- DDC/MDS
- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PS3575 .A7 .C78 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Individual authors 1961-
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- English
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