Publication Date: September 21, 2021

Bellastoria Press

Genre: Historical Fiction

Marry a Catholic stranger, or flee the only world she’s ever known: Headstrong Bruna de Gansard must choose one or the other to protect her Cathar family from the inquisitors.

Toulouse, 1229. The inquisitors have arrived to rid the city of Cathar heretics once and for all, and are putting all unmarried girls over the age of 12 to the question. After an incident in the town calls unwanted attention to 14-year-old Bruna, a young Catholic stranger who is sympathetic to the heretics warns her family about the looming danger, and volunteers to marry their daughter to save her from being questioned.

But Bruna doesn’t want to be forced into marriage, so she chooses flight—which lands her unexpectedly in the midst of a Catholic pilgrimage to Compostela, thrusting her into a life of deceit.

When her beauty and her voice bring her to the attention of the powerful Baron de Belascon, who owes fealty to the king of France, Bruna earns the enmity of the baron’s bitter and imperious mother and finds herself caught between her allegiance to her own people and the dangerous secret of her origins—a secret that can be revealed at any time after the arrival of a French knight who recognizes her.

The Orphans of Tolosa Trilogy comes to a dramatic end in this gripping story of loyalty and betrayal, set amidst the violence and peril of the Albigensian Crusades.

Susanne Dunlap is the author of ten works of historical fiction. A graduate of Smith College with a PhD in Music History from Yale University, Susanne grew up in Buffalo, New York and has lived in London, Brooklyn and Northampton, MA. She now lives in Northampton with her long-time partner, Charles, has two grown daughters, three granddaughters, a grandson, a stepson and a stepdaughter, five step-grandsons and one step-granddaughter—that’s a total of four children and eleven grandchildren!

Susanne is also an Author Accelerator Certified Book Coach in fiction and nonfiction. In her spare time (which is not plentiful) she cycles in the beautiful Pioneer Valley.

For more information, please visit Susanne Dunlap’s website. You can follow author Susanne Dunlap on Facebook, Twitter, Goodreads, Instagram, Pinterest, and BookBub.

Blog Tour Schedule

Tuesday, September 21
Guest Post at Novels Alive

Wednesday, September 22
Review at Gwendalyn’s Books

Thursday, September 23
Review at Pursuing Stacie

Friday, September 24
Review at Novels Alive
Feature at Reading is My Remedy

Monday, September 27
Review at Passages to the Past

Tuesday, September 28
Feature at The Cozy Book Blog

Wednesday, September 29
Feature at The Caffeinated Bibliophile

Thursday, September 30
Review at Bookworlder

Friday, October 1
Review at Bonnie Reads and Writes

Saturday, October 2
Feature at I’m All About Books

Monday, October 4
Review at Books, Cooks, Looks

Tuesday, October 5
Excerpt at Books and Benches

Wednesday, October 6
Feature at SplendeurCaisse

Thursday, October 7
Review at Chicks, Rogues, and Scandals

Friday, October 8
Feature at Jathan & Heather

Monday, October 11
Review at Up Past My Bedtime

Tuesday, October 12
Review at With A Book In Our Hands

Thursday, October 14
Review at Across the Sky in Stars

Friday, October 15
Feature at Coffee and Ink

Giveaway

Enter to win a paperback set of The Orphans of Tolosa Trilogy! 3 sets are up for grabs!

The giveaway is open to the US only and ends on October 15th. You must be 18 or older to enter.

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