Instead he is recruited into a secret order investigating strange occurrences across Europe. He is brilliant and gorgeous but, cast as a heretic, he is sent to the Vatican in Rome where he expects to be punished or executed. Sixteen-year-old Titus Devere is thrown out of his religious order after proving that a divine revelation (blood streaming from a religious icon) was a fake, using his knowledge of Moorish science. It includes a medieval map of Europe that will track their journey and the interior includes relevant decorative elements as well as an interior line illustration.The year is 1492. The first in a series, this epic and richly detailed drama is grounded in historical communities and their mythic beliefs. The four young people encounter werewolves, alchemists, witches, and death-dancers as they head toward a real-life historical figure who holds the boundaries of Christendom and the secrets of the Order of the Dragon. As the nuns walk in their sleep and see strange visions, Isolde is accused of witchcraft - and Luca is sent to investigate her, but finds himself plotting her escape.ĭespite their vows, despite themselves, love grows between Luca and Isolde as they travel across Europe with their faithful companions, Freize and Ishraq. Isolde is a seventeen-year-old girl shut up in a nunnery so she can't inherit any of her father's estate. Cast out of his religious order for using the new science to question old superstitious beliefs, Luca is recruited into a secret sect: The Order of the Dragon, commissioned by Pope Nicholas V to investigate evil and danger in its many forms, and strange occurrences across Europe, in this year - the end of days.
Seventeen-year-old Luca Vero is brilliant, gorgeous - and accused of heresy.
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