M. Garfield Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)

December 1087—"If we come back together…it will all happen again.”Maura’s dire warning has come to pass. The devils she dreads have shattered the bond she shared with her beloved Simon—and in doing so have shattered both their lives. Snared within a tangled web of tyrants, they hang precariously on the brink of life and death.Will they reunite and triumph in their battle for survival?Can they make their way home to Mynyw and find peace?Will their ruthless kin ever allow them the freedom to love?

September 1087—Simon, a physician, and Maura, his wife, live a life of precarious bliss in the cathedral village of Mynyw in Wales. At William the Conqueror’s deathbed, William’s family coerces him into releasing his vile brother Odo, Bishop of Bayeux, from prison. Odo blames Simon alone for his jailing, and his freedom unleashes a plague of devils. Their contagion of hate rages across England and Wales, leaving in its wake an endless horrific nightmare of invasions, murder, kidnappings, and poisonings, all of which abet Odo’s ultimate aim-to destroy Simon and Maura’s bliss forever.

November 1086--The borders of England and Normandy are strangled in the throes of constant war, a tyrannical Royal Family is splintered by treachery, and brothers poisoned by avarice vie for power. Trapped within the turbulent clan, Simon, a bastard, and Maura, a ward, are forced to wage a desperate and endless battle for survival, peace, and the freedom to love.