White Heat by K. M. Grant

Raimon has escaped the pyre and carried the blue flame to the mountains to unite his people against invasion. Besieged by the Cather White Wolf and the Catholic Aimery, his strenght begins to fail. Will his beloved Occitan and his love for Yolanda survive the King's army, gathering in the north?

Well, after Death of Kings, this book lightened my mood. It lightened the anger brewing inside me for having wasted my time on Death of Kings. It got me wondering if all had been otherwise, like every good book does.
  This is the second book in the Perfect Fire Trilogy. The next book, which is the last book, is Paradise Red and I really want to read it. The first book is Perfect Fire and I want to read that too.
  Getting back to the second book. I didn't sleep all night reading this book! I just couldn't keep it down. The suspense at every page which K. M. Grant has woven on every page is just beautiful. She has woven it so indirectly that the reader doesn't even come to know its suspense. Another reason was that I was fed up of happy endings and heroes winning all the time. This book gave way to tragedy, to real life, not to fantasy. Does a person, who is starved to death, wants to protect the Blue Flame (for instance) and for that he will fight like some two thousand soldiers single - handed? No. That is not reality. Well, if it would happen like that I wouldn't be disappointed but I would have been a bit bored.
   *Yolanda gets sold off by her brother to *Hugh des Arcis and Aimery sells Amouroix to France. And *Aimery does all this so that he could be safe not his people.
   At last, all hopes are lost as even their friends go into the enemy camp. At last, *Yolanda has to go back with *Hugh and *Aimery and *Raimon, thought they hate each other to the core, have to take the same side so as to save Occitan and their lives.
  Now, if Yolanda comes back to Raimon or if Occitan is not captured by the French, we will only come to know in the third and the last book.
  This is the perfect book I have ever read. I dont see any mistakes in it. The character K. M. Grant has chosen for herself is the lands itself, which is so very clever and the way she narrates it also is simple shocking.
  Warning: Once you pick up this book and start reading it, you will not feel like putting it down.
  *These are all the characters of the book and you will come to know who they are by reading the book.