Your life hangs in the balance here, and you cannot guess what answers I would prefer. Luca is summoned before a Papal Inquisitor-a man simply known as the lord-and told: “You must not lie to me. Luca Vero is a young initiate to the priesthood who has been banished from his monastery for the heretical act of questioning the veracity of the monastery’s shards of the True Cross. Changeling, the first in the series to be known as The Order of Darkness, is set just prior to this time period, at the end of the 15th century in Italy. Gregory is well known for her books on Renaissance England ( The Other Boleyn Girl, The Virgin’s Lover). While waiting for her new book, The Kingmaker’s Daughter, to arrive on the holds shelf for me, I have been trying out her new series for teens, The Order of Darkness. I am unabashedly in love with stories of Medieval and Renaissance Europe, so it is no real surprise that I love Philippa Gregory. With the first book in her Order of Darkness series, Philippa Gregory sets a tale of romance, intrigue, and Inquisition in the startling and delightful ambiance of pre-Enlightenment Europe.
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