After surviving a childhood of torment and loss, Crease becomes a fully functioning member of medieval England's Jewish community. He accumulates wealth and enjoys his forbidden romance until everything falls apart and the past comes back to get him.
Despite fighting for tolerance and a sustainable future, Crease now finds himself on a destructive campaign of vengeance and redemption that will push his morality and his very character to the brink. He has his dreams snatched away from him and loses some cherished relationships. In his darkest days, Crease has nothing.
With a life he can barely recognise, Crease eventually emerges from his troubles and focuses on his the goal that had dominated his life; that never-ending quest for tolerance in a kingdom full of enemies. And, when that quest takes him across the country and pushes him into harrowing events hauntingly similar to those horrific scenes in Norwich years ago, Crease struggles to cope but finds himself more steely and determined than ever before. He will face blades and hammers, sickles and fists, and will thrust himself into danger to give himself a chance.
And, when Crease has a family to care for, he finds that he will go to new lengths to protect them and their people from the Church and from the world.
Continuing on from one of the most forgotten episodes of anti-Semitism in history, The Shadow of the Flame follows the human story and the lengths that a marginalised and victimised people must go to in order to thrive.
Despite fighting for tolerance and a sustainable future, Crease now finds himself on a destructive campaign of vengeance and redemption that will push his morality and his very character to the brink. He has his dreams snatched away from him and loses some cherished relationships. In his darkest days, Crease has nothing.
With a life he can barely recognise, Crease eventually emerges from his troubles and focuses on his the goal that had dominated his life; that never-ending quest for tolerance in a kingdom full of enemies. And, when that quest takes him across the country and pushes him into harrowing events hauntingly similar to those horrific scenes in Norwich years ago, Crease struggles to cope but finds himself more steely and determined than ever before. He will face blades and hammers, sickles and fists, and will thrust himself into danger to give himself a chance.
And, when Crease has a family to care for, he finds that he will go to new lengths to protect them and their people from the Church and from the world.
Continuing on from one of the most forgotten episodes of anti-Semitism in history, The Shadow of the Flame follows the human story and the lengths that a marginalised and victimised people must go to in order to thrive.
