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TRAPPED BY REBELS, THREATENED FROM THE INQUISITION... AND A GOLDEN FORTUNE IN THE TOTAL AMOUNT!
Since the death of her husband, Anne Blakhall has carried on their shared business as a tailor and embroiderer in the heart of London. Instead of remarry as prosperous London widows usually do, she's taken a lover - David Weir, a foreign merchant who is secretly a Jew and for that reason in continuous deadly peril so long as he remains in England, where Jews have been banished for over a hundred years. Anne, sharing in his secrets, knows that both his life and hers would be forfeit if he is found out.
Dame Frevisse of St. Frideswide's nunnery is in London to arrange the funeral vestments for her cousin's murdered husband, the Duke of Suffolk. But she is also charged with secretly recovering - and then conveying to her cousin - the gold the late duke sent out of England shortly before his death. But her duty and their love become more dangerous a rebel army advances on London - and a murdered is learned in the crypt of any London church, mutilated with what a Franciscan friar of the Inquisition claims are Hebrew letters.
Frevisse must discover not only who is guilty... but whether anyone is innocent whatsoever.
"What Frazer, a meticulous researcher, gets absolutely right in The Sempster's Tale will be the attitudes of the charactrs." - Detroit Free Press
"Medieval English society, culture, and politics become more active in Margaret Frazer's skillful application of vivid imagery, complex characterizations, and an intriguing plot." - BookLoons
