![]() But when this strange, vulnerable girl turns up pleading for help, against his better instincts he allows himself to become her protector. ![]() A scarred veteran who handled himself capably in battle yet still saw his title and holdings stripped from him through the machinations of a rival, Thomas has discarded the tenets of chivalry and turned to banditry. ![]() The narrative begins with a fateful encounter between Thomas, a disgraced knight, and an orphaned girl hiding in a dilapidated farmhouse with the plague-ridden remains of her father. And indeed there may not be: the devout have concluded that God has turned his face from mankind, abandoning the earthly realm to the depredations of demons from the pit. The wealthy barricade themselves in palatial manors, ignoring the devastation outside their fortified walls and feasting like there is no tomorrow. Survivors live in decimated villages, suspicious of their neighbors and outright hostile to outsiders. War and the Black Plague have ravaged the land. In fourteenth-century France, all hell is breaking loose. ![]() Between Two Fires by Christopher Beuhlman ![]()
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