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About The Last True Templar:
A Perilous Quest. A Deadly Legacy.
Italy, 1351. English knight Gerard Fox and the resourceful Willa have come through a death-defying journey across war-torn Europe. Now looking towards their future together, they must first find a way to reconcile with their difficult pasts.
In a small village between Florence and Siena, Fox and Willa are caught up in a deadly ambush. After rescuing the enigmatic woman who is the target of the attack, they take refuge in her opulent villa and learn her heartbreaking story – a tale of loss, deception… and a burning desire for freedom.
Soon, Fox and Willa are involved in a perilous quest to save her family’s legacy… and to do so, they will have to solve a mystery that points the way to the fabled lost treasure of the Knights Templar.
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About the Authors:
Boyd Morrison is a #1 NY Times bestselling author, actor, engineer, and Jeopardy! champion. He started his career working on NASA’s space station project at Johnson Space Center, where he got the opportunity to fly on the Vomit Comet, the same plane used to train astronauts for zero gravity.
After earning a PhD in engineering from Virginia Tech, he used his training to develop sixteen US patents at Thomson/RCA. Boyd then managed a video game testing group in Microsoft’s Xbox division before becoming a full-time writer.
For non-fiction thrills, he enjoys white water rafting, skiing, scuba diving, and bungee jumping. Boyd is also a professional actor, appearing in films, commercials, and stage plays. In 2003 he fulfilled a lifelong dream and became a Jeopardy! champion. He currently lives in Seattle with his wife.
Elizabeth Morrison is Senior Curator of Manuscripts at the J. Paul Getty Museum. She received her PhD in the History of Art from Cornell University and began work at the Getty in 1996.
During her twenty-five years there, she has curated numerous exhibitions, including Imagining the Past in France, 1250-1500 in 2010 and Book of Beasts: The Bestiary in the Medieval World in 2019.
The accompanying publications for both shows were finalists for most prestigious honor in museum work, the College Arts Association award for outstanding exhibition catalogue.
She has written or edited six books as well as a dozen articles in the specialized area of French and Flemish manuscript illumination. A leader in her field, she has served on the boards of the International Center of Medieval Art and the Medieval Academy of America, and is currently the Vice President of the Association of Art Museum Curators.
My Opinion:
I was pulled in from the very beginning of this well written and completely enthralling novel. This is the second book in the series and I did not read the first but did not feel any lack for not having done so.
Fox and Willa have come through a difficult period (the first book) and are now trying to just find a place of peace. But they find themselves caught up in someone else’s problems (again) and this time they save a young woman from an ambush and it leads them into a vast and varied adventure that involves the last of the fables Knights Templar.
A truly compelling, fast paced and well researched novel with the kind of characters you will follow to the ends of the Earth. Once I started it was really hard to put down until I reached the conclusion.
Rating:
5
