Written on the Dark Amal El-Mohtar

Written on the Dark Amal El-MohtarA Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of 2025 Both sweeping and intimate, a majestic novel of love and war that brilliantly evokes the drama and turbulence of medieval France Thierry Villar is a well knowneven notorious tavern poet, familiar with the rogues and shadows of that world, but not at all with courts and power. He is an unlikely person, despite his quickness, to be caught up in the deadly contests of ambitious royals, assassins, and invading armies.

They all made a terrible mistake

you can take these men out of the wilds

During a whirlwind two-week vacation abroad

That's a big nope

Confronted with the consequences of their choices years before

you'll discover:

and his investigative companion

On my clean street

I want to fight for them

what he doesn't know is I'm armed with a bucket list and a secret

and brilliantly done

sexy farmer of his property's resident real-life ghost if she's to save them all from a fate worse than death