Hardcover, $18.99. ISBN: 978-1-4424-5344-9.
Book Talk:
Luca Vero has been imprisoned by the church for daring to question the authenticity of some of the relics that the church is claiming to be authentic. Facing a certain death at the hands of the Inquisition, Luca is offered a reprieve.Intrigued by his inquisitve nature, a mysterious stranger offers him a chance at freedom. After being trained, he will be allowed to go out into the world and record the strange and unusual things that are happening in the world that appear to be the work of the devil or the end of times.
Lucas' first mission into the world is an inquiry at a nunnery north of Rome where terrible things have been happening. The Lady Abess in charge of the nunnery was forced into the position in order to keep her from claiming the inheritance from her father. The nuns are experiencing horrible dreams and visions, walking in their sleep, and are experiencing unexplained bleeding wounds.
The guilt seems to fall on a plot laid out by the Lady Abess to drive the nuns mad.
As Luca digs deeper, he finds a deeper plot, driven by greed, that puts the life of every nun in danger.
Will Luca discover the culprit before all is lost? Will the Lady Abess ever regain what is rightfully hers?
Author's Web Site:
http://www.philippagregory.com/
Reveiwer's Note:
I completely enjoyed this book. I found myself swept back in time and found it hard to re-enter the world of the 21st century when I had finished the book.
This book is Book One of the Order of Darkness series. While the main characters in the story are not based upon any particular historical figure, they are accurate to the time that is depicted.
I think sometimes we forget that the world was a very different place than it is now, and the things that we now understand to be science, that follows rules and patterns were misunderstood and used by people with bad intentions to influence and even terrorize the common people of the time who had little or no education.
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