From the shadows of history comes the darkest of secrets. One the Church will do anything to keep hidden…
A.D. 997. When a bishop arrives at an Irish monastery to accuse a senior monk of heresy, twenty-year-old scribe Ciarán discovers that 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 lost book tells of fallen angels who bred with humans in the time before the Great Flood. But it also 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 location lead them to a young noblewoman who is kin to the duke of Aquitaine. Though the bishop knows about her too, and he’s allied himself with Fulk the Black, the most violent lord in all of France.
With the prophecy already in motion, time to find the device is running out. But 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 Come on Witches' Night?
A.D. 775. The village of Ellryk harbors a terrible secret. One that threatens the lives of three young women. But Maugis d’Aygremont, a knight of Charlemagne and master of the arcane arts, is hellbent on saving them.
The village is bracing for Hexennacht—Witches’ Night. The night each year when Hela descends from the mountain, as she has done for as long as anyone can remember, terrifying the villagers.
Many fear she is Loki’s daughter, the goddess of the dead. A being half human and half corpse-like who rides in on a wave of fog. Yet is there a deeper mystery behind her origin than the legends suggest?
The lives of Maugis and the women he is trying to save may hinge on the answer to that question…
What secrets lie behind the legends of the Fae?
When Maugis d’Aygremont was a boy, his grandmother warned him about the Fae. The Fae, she said, were wicked creatures who lured men into the woods, never to be seen again. But as years passed, Maugis began to wonder if the warnings were just stories to scare unruly children. 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.
