The City of Tears A Sweeping Historical Adventure from the No. 1 Bestselling Author

Sweeping from Carcassonne to Paris and Amsterdam, The City of Tears is a thrilling story of one family's fight to survive against the devastating tides of history. The second book in The Joubert Family Chronicles following The Burning Chambers. A Sunday Times "Best Paperback of the Year" Selection May, 1572. For ten violent years the Wars of Religion have raged across France. But now, peace has been brokered and a royal wedding has been negotiated. It is a marriage that could see France reunited at last. An invitation has arrived for Minou Joubert and her family to attend this historic wedding in Paris. What Minou doesn't know is that her family's oldest enemy will also be there, that the Jouberts will soon be scattered to the winds after tragedy strikes, and that a beloved child will disappear without trace... The City of Tears is a breathtaking historical novel of revenge, persecution and loss from master storyteller Kate Mosse.