“I was born of the Devil. That is what they said. I was a conjure of night and fog, and the grave was the womb from which I emerged.”
Abandoned as a baby outside the cemetery gates and raised by the town’s executioner—no one else wanted him—Marcus grows into a giant as unfeeling as death. Traveling fanatics arrive in his Bavarian town bringing not the Word of God, but the Great Dying. As plague consumes his world, Marcus searches for his missing daughter Sabine.
Following his daughter’s tracks in the snow, Marcus encounters the mad, the desperate and the wicked, their lives upended by the Dying. He also finds Brenna, a resourceful child whose hope and determination infect Marcus as the plague did not.
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