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The Dark Apostle
DAW Hardcover
July 2013
On Sale: July 2, 2013
Featuring: Elisha Barber
400 pages
ISBN: 0756408350
EAN: 9780756408350
Kindle: B00B1FGESU
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Fantasy
England in the fourteenth century: a land of poverty and opulence, prayer and plagueโฆwitchcraft and necromancy. As a child, Elisha witnessed the burning of a witch outside of London, and saw her transformed into an angel at the moment of her death, though all around him denied this vision. He swore that the next time he might have the chance to bind an angelโs wounds, he would be ready. And so he became a barber surgeon, at the lowest ranks of the medical profession, following the only healerโs path available to a peasantโs son. Elisha Barber is good at his work, but skill alone cannot protect him. In a single catastrophic day, Elishaโs attempt to deliver his brotherโs child leaves his family ruined, and Elisha himself accused of murder. Then a haughty physician offers him a way out: come serve as a battle surgeon in an unjust war. Between tending to the wounded soldiers and protecting them from the physiciansโ experiments, Elisha works night and day. Even so, he soon discovers that he has an affinity for magic, drawn into the world of sorcery by Brigit, a beautiful young witchโฆwho reminds him uncannily of the angel he saw burn. In the crucible of combat, utterly at the mercy of his capricious superiors, Elisha must attempt to unravel conspiracies both magical and mundane, as well as come to terms with his own disturbing new abilities. But the only things more dangerous than the questions heโs asking are the answers he may reveal. E. C. Ambrose writes with a razorโs ruthless precision, and draws new blood from the medieval world you thought you knew. Show less
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