The Ruins of Lace is about Lace Smuggling in historical France. It is a story of hope and of desperation. It is a good story, but a sad one as the title suggests. The book weaves through seven different viewpoints to tell the story of Lisette and Katharina, and the damage that lace has brought up...
They were there, all of them: the young lord, Ava, Pepin, Otker, Gerold, and that wriggling pile of the lame. The abbess had been right. If we stayed here, we would all be killed. Even these would not escape that fate. “Young Lord!” I held my breath...
Fiston. My father had called me fiston. Roused from my thoughts, I did not know where I would find myself: back in the forests of Béarn with my father or in the Château of Souboscq with the viscount. “Pardon me, Cousin.” If ever clarity of thought and purpose were needed, this was the time. But… ...