And, when it comes down to it, who can be trusted, even amongst those you believe your closest friends?

The Burning Chambers is the first in a planned series charting the Huguenot diaspora from the wars of religion in 16th-century France to 19th-century South Africa, and here a prologue set in a Franschhoek graveyard in 1862 hints at the sweep of the story to come. Kate Mosse is the award-winning author of eight novels, short story collections, essays, non-fiction, and a much-loved playwright. I knew how I could tell the story of Huguenots, through women telling their stories going back generations. Legend says the volcano is home to the Devil himself, but for thousands of years it has stood quietly idle, posing no threat.

The second novel in The Burning Chambers series, The City of Tears - which is set in Paris, London and Amsterdam - will be published in May 2020. Her books include the multimillion-selling Languedoc trilogy which begins with the unmissable Labyrinth, and the bestselling more recent series, The Joubert Family Chronicles. Kate Mosse is an international bestselling author with sales of more than five million copies in 42 languages. in " The BookBrowse Review" - BookBrowse's membership magazine, and in our weekly " Publishing This Week" newsletter. Brooks places the epicenter of the Bigfoot war in a high-tech hideaway populated by the kind of people you might find in a Jurassic Park franchise: the schmo who doesn’t know how to do much of anything but tries anyway, the well-intentioned bleeding heart, the know-it-all intellectual who turns out to know the wrong things, the immigrant with a tough backstory and an instinct for survival.

Minou's father is not in the best of health and keeping family secrets from his daughter that have the power to destroy Minou and the family. Mosse does not belabour this point, just as she doesn’t represent Catholics as bad or Protestants as good.Her father, Bernard Joubert, was a faithful Catholic, but it was her late mother, who was a true Languedocien, promoting tolerance through selling books expressing her believes. Taking place in France during the 1500s, our main character is Minou Joubert, a nineteen-year-old woman.