Talen's Quest

The journey of a young man’s determination to live out Jesus’ gospel of peace during one of Christianity’s darkest periods.

Orphaned at age seven, Talen Enns vowed to complete the pilgrimage from France to Jerusalem that cost his parents their lives at the hands of Muslim Turks in the fall of 1083. Thirteen years later, his quest to fulfill the vow and discover why God spared his life unfolds in the shadow of Pope Urban II’s crusade to wrest the Holy Land from Muslim control. Believing the crusade to be an affront to Jesus’ gospel of peace, Talen wants no part of it. But when the pope’s armies threaten to overtake him, he finds his quest becomes a race against time.

Set against the backdrop of the first of six major crusades, Talen’s Quest chronicles the journey of a young man’s determination to live out Jesus’ gospel of peace during one of the darkest periods of medieval history. The First Crusade, considered to be the most significant event occurring at the midpoint of the Middle Ages, was driven by papal ambition and Byzantine politics, fueled by the economic, religious, and social forces of medieval society, and executed by knights, infantry, and a host of ordinary pilgrims.

Perfect for fans of medieval fiction in general and Christian fiction in particular, Talen’s Quest plunges readers into the late 11th-century struggle between competing visions of Christianity.