The Blue Door

When Idren the hunter leaves his Atlas Mountains home to work as a mercenary in Andalusia, his grandmother warns that it's his turn to change the world. Barefooted, with only a spear and a bow? For this stranger coming to a strange land in 1090, it seems ancient magic is needed to help an innocent hunter survive in this embattled new world.The Blue Door, a prequel novella in the Accidental Heretics adventure series, is the life story of a Berber tribesman who came to fight for the caliphate in Iberia, in the same era that El Cid fought the Almoravid invaders.This collection includes these additional tales from the Accidental Heretics world: "Peire and Miquel Go to Sea," which recounts the initial meeting of two Catalan fighters when embarking a ship to join the Second Crusade. "The Mad Woman of La Catalane," a tale in the Pyrenees foothills, when Isabella of Valeros struggles to escape the heretic hunters in 1212.This collection also provides a preview from the Accidental Heretics adventure series.