A Saint, More Or Less

Nicole Tavernier, a mysterious healer, arrives in mid-sixteenth-century Paris to pursue her craft under the watchful eye of Barbe Acarie, a powerful and devout woman, who begins to have doubts about her when Nicole attracts the attention of the king of France, in a richly textured historical novel that explores the dangerous mix of politics, power, and religious fervor during the reign of King Henry IV. A first novel. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.