The Toledo Translators, Book One: City of Three Faiths Toledo, 1080. Three faiths. One city. A secret that could save—or destroy—centuries of human knowledge. When Jewish astronomer Abraham Cohen reads catastrophe in the stars above Toledo, he knows the city's days under Muslim rule are numbered. Alfonso VI's Christian armies are closing in, and with them comes the threat of destruction to the libraries, observatories, and centers of learning that have made Toledo a beacon of civilization. As siege tightens around the city, Abraham forms an unlikely alliance: Yusuf al-Qurtubi, a Muslim navigator haunted by his years at sea; Diego Medina, a Mozarab Christian scholar caught between two worlds; and their families, including a physician who defies the boundaries placed on women, a merchant with connections across the Mediterranean, and three children whose friendship crosses every divide their elders have drawn. Together, they forge a secret covenant to preserve the irreplaceable manuscripts and scientific knowledge that political and religious powers would see destroyed. But as Toledo falls and promises of tolerance begin to crumble, their network faces threats from zealots within their own communities, suspicious new rulers, and the crushing weight of history itself. City of Three Faiths is the first volume of The Toledo Translators trilogy, a sweeping historical saga spanning from the fall of Toledo in 1085 through the emergence of the legendary School of Translators that transmitted ancient Greek and Islamic learning to medieval Europe—and beyond. For readers who loved The Pillars of the Earth , The Shadow of the Wind , People of the Book , and The Name of the Rose —a richly researched epic about the power of knowledge to transcend the boundaries that divide us.