During the 12th and 13th centuries, the Cathars in southwest France posed such a threat to Roman Catholicism that the Inquisition was tasked to destroy them. Francois de Beaufort will lose the castle which is his inheritance, be horribly maimed in battle and see the woman he loves imprisoned and tortured for her faith. But he vows to fight back, to survive - and to rescue her.
Ashes in the Wind interweaves the destinies of two families: the Anglo-Irish Burkes and the Catholic Irish Sullivans, beginning in 1919 with a shocking murder and the burning of the Burkes' ancestral castle in Kerry. Childhood friends John Burke and Tomas Sullivan will find themselves on opposite sides of an armed struggle which engulfs Ireland. Only sixty years later will the triumphant and redemptive finale of this enthralling story be played out.
