The Burning Chambers : A Thrilling Epic of Love and Conspiracy from the No. 1 Bestselling Author

Author: Mosse, Kate

Historical adventure

Published on 20 January 2022 by PAN MACMILLAN (Pan Books) in the United Kingdom as part of The Joubert Family Chronicles series.

Paperback | 608 pages
130 x 197 x 38 | 408g

The Sunday Times No. 1 Bestseller‘Mosse is a master storyteller’ – Madeline Miller, bestselling author of CirceBringing 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 Mosses enthralling, meticulously researched historical series. It is followed by The City of Tears.

A tour de force – The ObserverGripping, 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 ChambersAn utterly absorbing epic – Lucy Foley, bestselling author of The Paris Apartment, on The City of TearsMeticulously researched and stunningly written – Santa Montefiore, bestselling author of Wait for Me, on The Ghost Ship