Cursed In The Blood: A Catherine LeVendeur Mystery - Plot & Excerpts
Wednesday, 16 kalends July (June 16), 1143. Commemoration of Saint Julitte, martyred for being Christian, and her son, Cyrus, age three, martyred for kicking the Roman governor in the stomach. Est in Northanhymbrorum provincia, haud procul a Tine flumine, ad austrum site, villa quœdam, nunc quidem modica, et raro cultore habitata, sed, ut antiquitatis vestigia tenantur, quondam ampla et magnifica. Hœc … Hestild vocatur. There is, in the province of Northumbria, not at all far from the River Tyne, on the east side, a certain village, now rather ordinary, and sparsely inhabited, but it holds the traces of antiquity, at one time important and magnificent. This is called Hexham. —Richard of Hexham, History of the Church of Hexham, Capitual I Duncan grinned at the stupefied expressions of his family. The grin grew wider as he recognized Edgar. “Baby brother!” he exclaimed. “I can’t believe they would bother to drag you back home. Father must truly be desperate.
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