"There are people involved.That's the first mistake.Scientists were never meant to be part of history.Anything in the past is better studied from the present.It's safer.When a team of Australian scientists ⁰́₃ and a lone historian ⁰́₃travel back to St-Guilhem-le-D©♭sert in 1305 they discover being impartial,distant and objective just doesn't work when you're surroundedby the smells, dust and heat of a foreign land.They're only human after all.But by the time Artemisia is able to convinceothers that it's time to worry,it's already too late." -- back cover.