Dark Spirit is an allegory of the greed and lust for power driving the events of the Hundred Years’ War. It is a layered account of obsession, passionate love, royal treachery, political intrigue, betrayal and revenge.

The setting is Provence and England in 1348. The Black Death, a cataclysmic event that decimated half the population of Europe, strikes as England and France are locked in a vicious war over the right to rule France.

The novel opens on the morning Aveline de Nevers, the 18-year-old heroine, is sent to a convent for refusing to marry the man her parents have chosen. Her lover, Guillaume de Bedillac, rescues her from her guards, and they escape to a mountain village north of Avignon.

The story follows the fortunes of Aveline and Guillaume as they struggle to survive the plague and the incursions of English troops.