num_pages: 478
description: Dolssa is a young gentlewoman with uncanny gifts on the run from an obsessed friar determined to burn her as a heretic for the passion she refuses to tame.Botille is a wily and charismatic peasant a matchmaker running a tavern with her two sisters in a tiny seaside town.The year is 1241; the place Provensa what we now call Provence Francea land still reeling from the bloody crusades waged there by the Catholic Church and its northern French armies.When the matchmaker finds the mystic near death by a riverside Botille takes Dolssa in and discovers the girls extraordinary healing power. But as the vengeful Friar Lucien hunts down his heretic the two girls find themselves putting an entire village at the mercy of murderers.
language: English
title: The Passion of Dolssa
publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers