Fire, Burn!

Mallory Dorn Hart. John James Company, $12 (368pp) ISBN 978-0-9675915-1-3

The quest to discover the Treasury of the Knights-Templar, a veritable mountain of riches that disappeared in the 1300s, drives a 16th-century noblewoman to try to access ancestral memories what she calls ""seeing-back"" to guide her in Fire, Burn!, Mallory Dorn Hart's fourth historical novel. Heroine Lyse-Magdalene de Bourbon-Tonni re and her Italian companion Ferrante travel the French countryside and encounter various dangers in their search for wealth and love.

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