Gave it a closer look as it seemed to be neither YA nor PNR. I found this in my library’s audiobook selection. And there Thomas will confront an evil wrestling for the throne of Heaven, and which has poisoned his own soul. There, she tells Thomas, she will fulfill her mission. And now she has convinced the faithless Thomas to shepherd her across an apocalyptic landscape to Avignon. She believes the dead speak to her in dreams. But is it delirium or is it faith? She believes she has seen the angels of God. An almost unnerving picture of innocence, she tells Thomas that the plague is only part of a larger cataclysm-that the fallen angels under Lucifer are rising in a second war on Heaven. Thomas, a disgraced knight, has found an orphan of the Black Death in a Norman village. “Buehlman.slips effortlessly into a different kind of literary sensibility, one that doesn’t scrimp on earthy humor and lyrical writing in the face of unspeakable horrors.”* The year is 1348. Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman
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