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By Eric Flint

Subjects: Fiction, alternative history, Alternative histories (Fiction), Burgundy (France) -- Fiction, Time travel -- Fiction, Time travel, Fiction, Popes, Popes -- Fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general, France, fiction

Description: "Most of the Church's senior leaders have converged upon the city of Besancon in Burgundy, where Pope Urban's renegade papacy, now on the run from the Vatican's would-be usurper Borja, plans to offer an ecumenical olive branch to the other Christian denominations with which Rome has been at war. Fortunately, Urban has up-time help relying on Cardinal Protector Larry Mazzare's theological savvy, Sharon Nichol's medical skills, and a small contingent of the Hibernian Battalion on loan by Mike Stearns. Which is prudent as Borja's assassins and other killers are determined to stop him"--