when dr alice tanner discovers two skeletons during an archaeological dig in southern france, she unearths a link with a horrific and brutal past. eight hundred years ago, on the night before a brutal civil war ripped apart languedoc, a book was entrusted to alais, a young herbalist and healer. although she cannot understand the symbols and diagrams the bookcontains, alais knows her destiny lies in protecting their secret, at all costs. skilfully blending the lives of two women divided by centuries but united by a common destiny, labyrinth is a powerful story steeped in the atmosphere andhistory of southern france.