Deer Peak
East Bohemia at the end of the 16th century
The widow of his younger brother William arrives from France to the castle where Jan - the last descendant of the Lords of Zhora - lives. The brothers had been very close since childhood, but the split between them occurs only when William decides to go to France to support King Henry IV. Navarsky. He marries in France, despite his brother's disapproval, and shortly afterwards finds death on the battlefield. John suffers from remorse because he broke up with his brother in a bad way. In addition, he has financial problems, as the expenses of the war campaign and William's unexpected marriage put a heavy strain on the family coffers. The arrival of the widow, who intends to claim her inheritance, will exacerbate the tense situation.
The snow-covered landscape at the "end of the world" is a punishment in itself for the young Frenchwoman. She had hoped to find a new home here, but has encountered only coldness and rejection. Even the servants sense the mood of the estate and behave hostile to it. Soon after her arrival, someone tries to poison her. The only protector of the widow is Vilém's lawyer, Václav Lešický, who is trying to find the culprit. When the plague breaks out in the region, William's numerous relatives seek refuge in the castle. There are strained relations between the family members and the forced cohabitation under the same roof brings more problems. It's not just property that's at stake anymore, it's lives...
Hana Marie Körnerová
Hana Marie Körnerová was born in 1954 in Litoměřice, she spent her childhood in the small village of Počaply near Terezín, where her father was the head teacher and librarian. She lived in Terezín, Litoměřice, Lovosice, Prague, Hřídelec and Lázně Bělohrad. Since childhood, she has been writing the so-called. in a drawer, but her first novel, Lord of the Mountains, was not published until 1993. This six-volume saga tracing the history of a French noble family immediately won her an immediate readership. France of the 18th and 19th centuries is the backdrop the author uses most often in her historical-adventure stories. For fifteen years she worked in the health care industry and capitalized on her knowledge of the environment in her novels Please, Nurse, Thank You, Nurse and What Time Cannot Reject. The period thriller Angel Face served as a model for Zdeněk Troška's film of the same name. The most famous and most popular novels besides The Mountain Lord are the true stories from post-war Czechoslovakia, Heřmánkové údolí and Hlas kukačky, then a five-part historical saga, which consists of the novels Carriage to Nowhere, Third port, The other shore, The Long Road and the Imperial Lookout. Her books regularly appear on bestseller lists and are also among the most borrowed in Czech libraries.
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