Escape Into Adventure, Romance, Suspense, and Magic This July

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Unleashed by the Guardian

by Kathy Lyons

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Putnam
March 2006
532 pages
ISBN: 0399153446
Hardcover
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In this extraordinary thriller, rich in the atmospheres of
medieval and contemporary France, the lives of two women
born centuries apart are linked by a common destiny.

July 2005. In the Pyrenees mountains near Carcassonne,
Alice, a volunteer at an archaeological dig stumbles into a
cave and makes a startling discovery-two crumbling
skeletons, strange writings on the walls, and the pattern
of a labyrinth; between the skeletons, a stone ring, and a
small leather bag.

Eight hundred years earlier, on the eve of a brutal crusade
to stamp out heresy that will rip apart southern France,
Alais is given a ring and a mysterious book for safekeeping
by her father as he leaves to fight the crusaders. The
book, he says, contains the secret of the true Grail, and
the ring, inscribed with a labyrinth, will identify a
guardian of the Grail. As crusading armies led by Church
potentates and nobles of northern France gather outside the
city walls of Carcassonne, it will take great sacrifice to
keep the secret of the labyrinth safe.

In the present, another woman sees the find as a means to
the political power she craves; while a man who has great
power will kill to destroy all traces of the discovery and
everyone who stands in his way.