But when Gregory is captured in France and held for ransom, Margaret knows she must take action her in laws are too tight with money to be of any use so she teams up with her old friends Mother Hilde, the herbalist, and Brother Malachi, an alchemist on a quest for the secret of changing base metals into gold. She is carving out a life for herself and her daughters despite the hostility and greed of her in laws. Margaret, a resourceful midwife, is living with the insufferable relatives of her third husband, Gilbert de Vilers, known as Gregory. The unforgettable Margaret of Ashbury returns in the second book of the trilogy that began with A Vision of Light. Because of this ability, Margaret has become suddenly different to her tradition bound parents, to the bishop s court that tries her for heresy, and ultimately to the man who falls in love with her. But most astonishing of all, Margaret has experienced a Mystic Union A Vision of Light that endows her with the miraculous gift of healing. Incredibly, she survived, was apprenticed to an herbalist, and became a midwife. Married off at the age of fourteen to a merchant reputed to be the Devil himself, Margaret was left for dead during the Black Plague. As she narrates her life, we discover a woman of startling resourcefulness. Three clerics contemptuously decline to be Margaret’s scribe, and only the threat of starvation persuades Brother Gregory, a Carthusian friar with a mysterious past, to take on the task. However, like most women in fourteenth century England, she is illiterate. The bestselling novel that introduces Margaret of Ashbury and launches a trilogy featuring this irrepressible womanMargaret of Ashbury wants to write her life story.
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