PASSAGE BETWEEN TIMES: A Novel of the Cathars, Bogomils, and Lost Relics John Baptist by

The year is 1241. The Pope burns heretics. The Tartars burn the world. Between them, a knight, a princess, and the bones of John the Baptist.Bertrand de Rochefort, Knight Templar, escaped the pyres of Montségur where the Cathars sang as they died. Now the Black Sea casts him upon the cliffs of Kaliakra, clutching The Secret Book - a gospel Rome would kill to destroy.Hunted by his own Order, Bertrand finds Elena of Karvuna. Daughter of the last Bogomil dedets burned in Tarnovo. Keeper of the Pure. Her sleeves trail the earth like the wings of a fallen angel, and her voice wakes the hesychasts who have not spoken in thirty years.Together they seek the relics of John the Baptist, hidden on the Island of Saint Ivan for five hundred years. For the Cathars believe he was the first Parfait. For the Bogomils, he is the witness that Rome lies.But the Temple comes with fire. The Master of France comes with the Pope's command: Burn the heresy. Bring the Baptist's bones to Rome.From the caves of Aladzha to the fortress-island of Durankulak, from the Iron Door of Karanla-maara to the forty-third chamber that is not of this world, Bertrand must choose: The cross of Rome, or the rose of the Pure.Rim Papa asks his question every three years. When the answer is "No," there is no more time.Passage Between Times is a medieval epic of faith, betrayal, and the secret church that stretched from Languedoc to the Black Sea. For readers of The Name of the Rose, Labyrinth, and The Da Vinci Code - but written as the monks themselves would have told it.