ARGONAUT BOOKS

Germany 1505. Following the death of her mother and her father's remarriage, five-year-old Katharina is placed in the convent at Brehna. She will never see her father again. 65 miles away, at Erfurt in Thuringia, Martin Luder, a promising young law student, turns his back on a lucrative career in order to become a monk. The consequences of their meeting on Easter Sunday 1523, will reverberate down the centuries throughout the Christian world. A compelling portrayal of Katharina von Bora, amidst the turmoil of the Peasant's War, the German Reformation and the controversial priest at its heart.