In the Holy Land, an assassin waits to strike down Aimary de Lusignan, King of Jerusalem and Cyprus.
The Serpent\'s Crown is her second novel..
She is a member of the Historical Novel Society which gives her a chance to meet her favorite authors and fans of the genre, enjoys spending time with her husband, travel, gardening, and chasing down obscure references.
She currently lives in the Land of Enchantment, is married to an Englishman, works as a consultant, and occasionally teaches.
After immigrating to Canada, and later moving to New Mexico, she earned history degrees from the University of Western Ontario and the University of New Mexico.
About the Author: Hana Samek Norton grew up in the former Czechoslovakia exploring the ruins of castles and cloisters where she became captivated by history and historical fiction.
On Cyprus, the island of Aphrodite, Juliana and Lasalle find that loyalty, like love, comes in many guises, and that duty and honor require of them a terrible sacrifice.
When a messenger arrives from the Holy Land, enticing Lasalle back into a life he had abandoned, Juliana embarks on a perilous journey, only to find herself trapped in intrigues as byzantine as they are deadly between the Lusignans and the Ibel ns, two related and bitterly rival families.
A former mercenary with a formidable pedigree, Lasalle is a man singularly averse to conventions secular and spiritual.
In Poitou, her years spent as a novice hardly prepared the plain and pious Juliana de Charnais to become the wife of Gu rin de Lasalle, the Lord of Parthenay.
He belongs to a clan of ambitious and rebellious Poitevin barons, reviled and admired from France to the Holy Land, rumored to be descended from the legendary half-serpent Lady M lusine.
In the Holy Land, an assassin waits to strike down Aimary de Lusignan, King of Jerusalem and Cyprus
