Paradise Red (32 page)

The de Granville Trilogy
Blood Red Horse
Green Jasper
Blaze of Silver

How the Hangman Lost His Heart

The Perfect Fire Trilogy
Blue Flame
White Heat
Paradise Red

Copyright © 2010 by K. M. Grant
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First published in the United Kingdom in 2010 by Quercus Publishing, Plc.
Published in the United States of America in October 2010
by Walker Publishing Company, Inc., a division of Bloomsbury Publishing, Inc.
Electronic edition published in October 2012
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Grant, K. M. (Katie M.)
Paradise red / K.M. Grant.
p. cm.—(Perfect fire trilogy ; bk. 3)
Summary: In the waning days of winter in 1244, with much of Occitan destroyed by the
northern crusaders, Raimon, separated from the now-married Yolanda, tries to find a way
to recover the Blue Flame from the the hands of the evil White Wolf, leader of a band of
Cathars seeking refuge at the mountain fortress of Montségur.
[1. Knights and knightood—Fiction. 2. Albigenses—Fiction. 3. Montségur (France)—
History—13th century—Fiction. 4. Languedoc (France)—History—13th century—
Fiction. 5. France—History—Louis IX, 1226–1270—Fiction. 6. Middle Ages—Fiction.]
I. Title.
PZ7.G7667755Par 2010            [Fic]—dc22                 2009054214

This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales

are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the
author's imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales, or persons,
living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

ISBN 978-0-80272-279-9 (e-book)