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Anthems of al-Andalus #1
Sunbury Press
June 2013
On Sale: June 15, 2013
Featuring: Layla al-Khatib; William Chandon
438 pages
ISBN: 162006197X
EAN: 9781620061978
Kindle: B00DFTQOQW
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Romance Suspense | Romance Historical
For hundreds of years, Christians, Muslims and Jews lived together in peace, sharing languages and customs, and embracing a level of tolerance and mutual respect unheard of today. Working together, these three peoples spawned one of the great intellectual and cultural flowerings of history in medieval Spain.
Historical novel Emeralds of the Alhambra reawakens this remarkable era via the relationship between William Chandon, a wounded Christian knight brought to the Sultan's court in Granada, and the strongβwilled Layla alβKhatib, who is on a quest to become the first female Sufi Muslim mystic in a maleβdominated society. As Chandon's influence at court grows, he becomes trapped between his forbidden love for Layla, his Christian heritage, the demands of chivalry, and political expediency. Chandon must make a choice between love and honor, war and peace, life and death, a choice which ultimately will seal Granada's fate as the last surviving stronghold of Muslim Spain.
The novel is set in Granada at the resplendent Alhambra Palace during the Castilian Civil War (1367β1369), a time when Muslims took up their swords to fight alongside Christians. Emeralds of the Alhambra is the first book in the Anthems of alβAndalus series.
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