Charles Fontaine returns to Europe to sell his family’s ancestral domain and finds that a twelfth-century legend still haunts the property. Clues lead him to a parchment relating the curious tale of a village seeress, whose music enchanted a nobleman with shadowy ties to the present-day Fontaine family. With the help of a famous medievalist and enigmatic woman from his youth, Charles draws ever closer to the truth of this tale and its stunning historical revelation...and to his own buried past. ""The Heron Legacy"" is a novel of modern suspense in which history roams freely, its breath still warm.

An enthralling historical what-if from the author of ""The Universe in 3/4 Time: A Novel of Old Europe"", shortlisted for the 2023 Eric Hoffer Award Grand Prize.