From the shadows of history comes the darkest of secrets …
A.D. 997. When a bishop arrives at an Irish monastery to accuse a senior monk of heresy, twenty-year-old scribe Ciarán discovers the man who raised him like a father may burn at the stake.
His crime? Concealing a journal that warns of a prophecy tied to the Book of Enoch, a book of the Bible thought to be lost long ago. The book supposedly speaks of Enoch’s Device – a weapon deployed in the original war between Heaven and Hell.
A weapon both sides now desire.
Ciarán and his mentor flee to Paris. There, clues to the book’s whereabouts lead to a young woman from a noble house in Aquitaine. But the bishop is coming for her too, and this time he’s bringing an army.
With the prophecy in motion, time to find the device is running out. Though in a race between the forces of Heaven and Hell, can any mortal survive?
The war in Heaven brought Hell to Earth.
A.D. 998. In a forbidden book, young scribe Brother Ciarán discovers an ominous prophecy – one tied to the book of Revelation and the first battle between St. Michael and the Dragon.
At the end of a thousand years, the Dragon will be released from his prison. Ciarán learns this event is cyclical, repeating at the end of each millennium. It allows the Dragon and his servants a chance to free fallen angels and bring about the End of Days.
Unless a champion can stop them.
Pursuit of the prophecy, however, comes at a terrible price. Only two of Ciarán’s four companions survive to join the quest: a young widow with visions of the distant past and a Moorish poet whose gift with words is rivaled only by his skill with a sword.
Together, the trio must find a legendary artifact, one that could turn the tide of this conflict.
But the Dragon has his own champion searching for the relic. And if he must, he’ll raise half of Hell to find it…
What Terrors Await on Witches’ Night?
A.D. 775—In the village of Ellryk, a sinister secret lurks, threatening the lives of three young women. Maugis d’Aygremont, a knight of Charlemagne and a master of the arcane arts, is determined to save them.
As Hexennacht—Witches’ Night—approaches, fear grips the village. Each year, Hela descends from the mountain, instilling terror in the hearts of the villagers. Legend says she is Loki’s daughter, the goddess of the dead, a being half human and half corpse-like, riding in on a wave of fog.
But is there more to her origin than the ancient tales suggest?
Maugis must uncover the truth behind Hela’s existence, for the fate of the women—and perhaps the entire village—depends on it.
What secrets lie behind the legends of the Fae?
When Maugis d’Aygremont was a boy, his grandmother warned him about the Fae. She said they were wicked creatures who lured men into the woods, never to be seen again. As years passed, Maugis began to wonder if these warnings were merely stories to scare unruly children. That is, until the autumn of 766, when he saw one of the Fae in the flesh.
On the day that tore the House of Aygremont in two.
Now, eleven years later, Maugis, the chief counselor to Charlemagne, is about to embark on a clandestine mission with three of Charlemagne’s paladins. An expedition that may decide the fate of Christendom.
But will the dark secrets Maugis learned of the Fae in his harrowing past come to haunt him in the present – and put the entire mission in jeopardy?
The promise of gold lures an Irish chieftain and Mava, his strong-willed wife, to an ancient ringfort. But when a banshee’s cry echoes from the ruins, they are warned to turn back. Or at least one of them is going to die.
