CHAPTER NINE
Remi felt her heart beat fast as she sat at an antique oak desk in Pierre Côté’s office and read through the incunabulum he had recently acquired from Edinburgh.
A History of the Heroism and Good Works of the Knights Templar, as the title read when translated from Latin, was purported to be a printed copy of an earlier handwritten manuscript found in the library of Fearn Abbey.
Again, a connection to northern Scotland, Remi realized.
Fearn Abbey was in the far northeast of the Scottish Highlands, almost to the northern end of the nation, and therefore close to the Orkney Islands. Called the “Lamp of the North” in the Middle Ages, it was a center of learning, with roots as far back as the fifth century when most of the Scots were still pagan. If what the anonymous author of
