Promise of the Black Monks

Religious war erupts between church and king and shapes a young man’s fate in eleventh-century France . . .

Born of nobility in France in the year 1066, seven-year-old Tristan de Saint-Germain has his fate thrown to the winds upon the execution of his father for treason against William the Conqueror of Normandy. Abandoned by his mother, who remarries and departs for England, Tristan and his four-y...