Eight Pointed Cross /Marthese Fenech
The violent clash between the Ottoman Empire and the Knights of St John on the island fortress of Malta serves as the backdrop to this novel. Young siblings Domenicus and Katrina Montesa live under constant threat of raids by the Ottoman Turks, the staunchest enemies of the Christian knights. All the while, hundreds of leagues away in Instanbul, Demir's dream of becoming an imperial horseman in the Sultan's cavalry is his only salvation against relentless torment by his cruel brother. The Turkish invasion of Malta and the island's bloody defence will forever change the lives of the three protagonists, whose fates are intertwined not only with each other, but with nobels and peasants, knights and corsairs, tyrants and galley slaves, on both sides of the conflict
Print Book, English, 2011
BDL Pub., [Canada], 2011