The Burning Chambers

**The Sunday Times No. 1 Bestseller

'Mosse is a master storyteller' Madeline Miller, bestselling author of** Circe

Bringing sixteenth-century France vividly to life, Kate Mosse's historical epic The Burning Chambers is a gripping story of love, betrayal, war and conspiracy. It is the first volume in the sweeping, spellbinding series, The Joubert Family Chronicles.

Carcassonne, 1562. Nineteen-year-old Catholic Minou Joubert receives an anonymous letter at her father's bookshop. Sealed with a distinctive family crest, it contains just five words: SHE KNOWS THAT YOU LIVE.

But before Minou can decipher the mysterious message, a chance encounter with a young Huguenot convert, Piet Reydon, changes her destiny forever. For Piet has a dangerous mission of his own, and he will need Minou's help if he is to get out of La Cité alive . . .

A thrilling adventure and a heartbreaking love story, The Burning Chambers is the first novel in Kate Mosse's enthralling, meticulously researched historical series. It is followed by The City of Tears.

'A tour de force' The Observer

'Gripping, complex and intensely atmospheric' The Mail on Sunday

Praise for The Joubert Family Chronicles:

'Historical fiction to devour' Anthony Horowitz, bestselling author of Close to Death, on The Burning Chambers

'An utterly absorbing epic' Lucy Foley, bestselling author of The Paris Apartment, on The City of Tears

'Meticulously researched and stunningly written' Santa Montefiore, bestselling author of Wait for Me, on The Ghost Ship

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