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A Moorland Hanging

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The Knights Templar

They had all joined taking three vows: poverty, chastity, and obedience...for they were monks: warrior monks, dedicated to the protection of pilgrims in the Holy Land — until stories spread by an avaricious king who wanted their wealth for his own destroyed the order.

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There was one knight, however, who escaped the stake, vowing justice as he watched his innocent brothers die.

A Dark Justice

Cold-blooded murder has transformed Simon Puttock's official obligation into something horrid — and he will need the able assistance of his friend, Sir Baldwin Furnshill, to draw a criminal out. A former Knight Templar, Sir Baldwin knows much of duty and servitude — and of evil freely indulged in the name of godliness or greed. Now justice must be served,even if their search exposes extortion, foul corruption,rule by fear...and killers willing — even eager — to shed more blood.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 384 pages

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