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Nadira lives a dreary life as a servant until an adventurous nobleman steals her for a mysterious purpose and her world becomes abruptly undone. As the Black Friars spread terror throughout Medieval Europe in their attempt to keep the world a dark and fearful place, a few brave men, and one woman, resist the Inquisition.
A scholar lies dying in a merchant's stable where a Moorish servant girl receives his last words. To Nadira, words are her life: she lives them as her master's scrivener and dreams them in her mother's poetry but these few words from a stranger will propel her from a life of dull servitude into a world of greed and madness.
She wonders how words can generate such violence in the men who chase after old manuscripts, but after she reads some of the mysterious documents she begins to understand how ideas are more powerful than steel or fire. She begins to see that there is more in the world than what can be seen or grasped.
As the Black Friars spread terror throughout Medieval Europe in their attempt to keep the world a dark and fearful place, a few brave men resist the clutch of the Inquisition. They know that light of a single candle burning in a scholar's cell is more powerful than the conflagration of the auto da fe. A woman who can read and write in several languages is as much a treasure as a fine jewel. Nadira finds that she is traded between powerful men until one night the meaning of it all becomes clear.
She can do something with her mind that none of her captors can, and it has nothing to do with words.
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