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Poet, swordsman, and master of disguise, Vincente de Rocamora, the epitome of a young renaissance man in 17th century Spain, questions the goals of the Inquisition and the brutal means used by King Philip IV and the Roman Church to achieve them. Spain vows to eliminate the heretical influences attributed to Jews, Moors, and others who would taint the limpieza de sangre, purity of Spanish blood. At the insistence of his family, the handsome and charismatic Vincente enters the Dominican Order and is soon thrust into the scheming political hierarchy that rules Spain. As confessor to the king’s sister, the Infanta Dõna Maria, and assistant to Philip’s chief minister, Olivares, Vincente ascends through the ranks and before long finds himself poised to attain not only the ambitious dreams of the Rocamora family, but also—if named Spain’s Inquisitor General—to bring about an end to the atrocities committed in the name of the blood purity laws. First, the resourceful young man must survive assassination attempts from a growing list of ruthless foes in both Church and court, solve a centuries-old riddle to quell rumors of his own impurity of blood and above all, suppress his love for the seemingly unattainable Dõna Maria. Author: Donald Michael Platt This book is available at Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble.com and your favorite book store.
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This is an upcoming release and will be available to reviewers and academics on November 10, 2009. The Official Release date of this book is February 1, 2010. From the Introduction: There is a hollow on the eastern seaboard that makes the local Indians shudder. It is a place so feared that its true name is seldom spoken. Over the last century, many shadowy events have transpired there. Women have been groped by unseen hands, a teenager shot himself, a truck driver careened into a house, a child was molested by her father, and a husband stabbed his wife to death with a homemade spear. Some say these crimes were provoked or perpetrated by the angry ghost of a licentious nineteenth century schoolmaster who was murdered in that accursed hollow. Others say demons have lurked in that place, since long before the schoolmaster ever swaggered onto the scene. No one, living today, knows what really happened to the schoolmaster, but bits and pieces of his chilling tale have been passed on.
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