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Overview: Douglass was born in Penola, South Australia. She attended Annesley College, in Wayville, a suburb of Adelaide. She studied for her BA while working as a Registered Nurse, and later completed her PhD in early modern English History. She became a lecturer in medieval history at La Trobe University, Bendigo. While there she completed her first novel, BattleAxe, which launched her as a popular fantasy author in Australia, and later as an international success.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
1 The Nameless Day: The Black Plague. The Pestilence. Disease and death haunt every town and village across 14th century Europe and none are immune from its evil. Some see the devastation of their world as a sign from God for Man’s wickedness.
But Brother Thomas Neville sees this swath of death as something much more. Neville is a man beset by demons. Or is it angels? He has had a visitation from none other than the Archangel Michael, who commands Thomas to a mission. This mission will take Neville across the length and breath of the continent in a desperate bid to find the means to stop the minions of Satan who have found a doorway out of Hell and are preparing to venture forth, to try and seize this world in preparation for an assault on Heaven itself.
As Thomas Neville encounters angels and demons, saints and witches, he comes to realize that the armies of God and Satan are arraying themselves for the final battle…and that his soul is to be the battleground.
The question is, has Neville picked the truly good side?
2 The Wounded Hawk: "According to the ancient pagan calendar of Europe, the Nameless Day is the one day of the year when the veil is thinnest between our world and the world of the spirits. In the Year of Our Lord 1377, the Black Plague is sweeping the continent, and Brother Thomas Neville has started seeing demons – or are they angels?" "They tell him that the world is in more danger than ever before. Not only are the worlds touching, but minions of the Devil have crossed over and scattered throughout Europe, assuming human form. Their goal is to crash the very gates of Heaven." "It is Neville’s task to seek out these demons and thwart their plan. He has made his way back across Europe to his home in England to seek the ancient book of knowledge that holds the secrets to defeat the demons. On his journey he has been forced to abandon his vows to the Church to further his cause, and has returned to his secular roots as a young nobleman." "In doing so, his life is caught up with his childhood friend Henry Bolingbroke, the fair young Prince Hal, newly crowned Richard II, who Neville suspects is in league with the Devil, and also with fair young Margaret, the enigmatic woman whom he takes to wife – not out of love, but as a means to discover if she is one of those who would destroy mankind." "It is Neville’s task to discover the secrets of Heaven, but in doing so, what he discovers is that he can trust no one." Least of all himself.
3 The Crippled Angel: The world that the former monk Thomas Neville knows is crumbling about him. The Holy Mother Church of Rome is losing its power over men and Thomas knows that this is not Man’s doing but the work of the demons who have escaped their earthly prison and who are trying to breach the very gates of heaven.
The great archangel Michael has given Thomas the task to find the demons who now dwell in human form and expose their evil natures. To do this Thomas turns on one set of vows and return to his once lofty noble connections. He encounters old friends, a new love, and temptations that will try his conscience. And his very soul.
For Thomas is beginning to think that all that he knows may not be true. Faced with mortal love and friendships that he desperately wants and fears, he knows that time is growing short.
And the choice that he makes will reshape the world.
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