Thomas, a disgraced knight, has found a young girl alone in a dead Norman village.
Now Christopher Buehlman invites readers into an even darker age-one of temptation and corruption, of war in heaven, and of hell on earth.Īnd Lucifer said: “ Let us rise against Him now in all our numbers, and pull the walls of heaven down.” (Oct.His extraordinary debut, Those Across the River, was hailed as “genre-bending Southern horror” ( California Literary Review), “graceful horrific” (Patricia Briggs). Fans of historical fantasy and horror will find this epic darkly rewarding. Thomas is the perfect everyman whose virtuous and sinful sides war internally as much as his sword arm battles in the physical world Delphine is equally well drawn, part prophet and part frightened child. Buehlman's (Those Across the River) medieval world is detailed with both sweet-smelling air and the gory results of plague, brutal but where hard-won small victories may add up faster than vast defeats.
until nightmarish creatures rise up everywhere to stop Delphine. But they and their companion P%C3%A8re Matthieu don't realize they're trapped in a cosmic battle between good and evil, God having withdrawn from the world and Lucifer bent on filling the vacuum. Thomas can't ignore his compulsion to join her quest to go to Avignon, home of the pope, undertaken for reasons unknown even to her. But his road to oblivion in a nearly dead world ends with meeting Delphine, a young girl speaking with the voice of what may be angels%E2%80%93she could be a saint, or a witch. Thomas was a knight in mid-14th-century France before war, betrayal, and the Black Plague reduces him to banditry.
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