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Charlotte Lyne: HEIRS OF CAIN
Historical Novel
560 pages
978-3-431-03867-5
Hardcover
October 2012
What if your protector is also your greatest enemy?
HEIRS OF CAIN is set at a fascinating historical turning point, the formation of England at the transition from
the High to the Late Middle Ages.
The scene is England at the end of the 13th century. A frightful experience robs little Amicia of her home,
Castle Carisbrooke on the Isle of Wight. Lonely, haunted by horrifying images, and lacking any knowledge of
her ancestry, she grows up disguised as a boy under the care of the brothers of Quarr Abbey.
When the monks entrust her with nursing a severely injured knight, new pictures suddenly creep into her
dreams. They are fragments, scenes from a massacre, the ice-cold stare of two piercing eyes, and a scream
that refuses to end. Although Amicia can't explain why, she finds the stranger uncanny. Nevertheless, at the
urging of the abbot she leaves the cloister and embarks on a dangerous journey through England in search of
the truth.
"Charlotte Lyne's novel GLENCOE weaves a highly dramatic Romeo-and-Juliet story. It is obvious from her
visually stunning landscapes and almost cinematic narration of the plot that she herself lived in Glencoe for
several years."
Buchjournal
"GLENCOE is raw, painful, bloody – and yet as magical and intense as only a highland plant can be, with its
ability to hold its ground against all of life's adversities."
Histo-Couch.de
Also available:
GLENCOE
Total print-run of Charlotte
Lyne’s books: 200,000 copies
Charlotte Lyne, born in Berlin in 1965, studied German, Latin, and English and Italian literature in Berlin,
Naples, and London. Before moving to London with her husband and their three children, she lived for some
time in Glencoe, the Scottish hometown of her in-laws. Charlotte Lyne works as a writer, translator, and
editor.
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