Chapter 18

Joanne glared at him, as if he’d purposefully ruined her breakthrough with his logic. “Do you know anything at all about Joan of Arc?” she asked.

“Is she French?”

“Yes.”

“Then no, definitely not.”

Joanne punched him in the arm.

Fox winced and danced back from her. “That was completely uncalled-for.”

“Right, well, let me give you a quick run-down. Joan of Arc was a peasant girl in fifteenth-century France during the Hundred Years’ War with England.”

“I’m not sure I like how this story is starting.”

Joanne shot him a severe look. “She heard the voices of Saints, telling her that she had to support the king and free France from under the domination of the English.”

“Definitely don’t like how this story is starting.”

“So she led the army to victory after victory, which led to the crowning of the French king. However, she was captured and then burned at the stake for heresy,” Joanne said, gesturing emphatically with one hand.