About this ebook
An alchemist's virgin who is more than she seems
A fiendish murderer hiding in open sight
Cathar country, (now) southern France, year: 1200.
When the woodcutter's only daughter is murdered, the bailiff tries to arrest Bertwoin the Plowman, who flees to a master alchemist and his professional virgin, Flowia, for help.
Bertwoin must find the brutal killer while the grieving woodcutter, the relentless bailiff, and righteous monks pursue him. His search for clues takes him to the corpse room inside an abbey, to a torture pit near the Devil’s Doorstep, and to the accursed home of a heretic priest.
When monks capture him, wily Flowia rescues Bertwoin from the Bishop’s dungeon and hides with him where no one would think to look for them.
About the author
E. A. Rivière lives in a magical forest where mice claiming to be cousins move in for the winter then take the towels when they leave in spring. He is an award-winning author, a graduate of the six-week Odyssey Fantasy Writing Workshop, and a grand prize winner of the Sidney Lanier Poetry Competition. More than thirty of his stories and poems have been published, and Untold Press published his novel, Magic and Murder Among the Dwarves. In addition to The Plowman's Plight, he has also published a second Carcassonne mystery, The Wrathful Cup of Scorn. Unlike many writers, he doesn’t keep a cat in deference to his mouse cousins and because he couldn’t live up to its expectations.
