The Winter Ghosts by Kate Mosse

A grieving Englishman on a solitary winter journey seeks escape in a remote French valley and becomes drawn into a mist-shrouded village where the present and a brutal medieval past meet; encountering a shy, enigmatic local woman, he is drawn into stories of persecution, memory and loss, and as layers of history and haunting grief unfold he is offered both eerie revelation and a fragile chance at consolation.

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