Godly Enlightenment

'I have brought peace to the church... by joining the two faiths of Truphoria.'

Hope blinked incredulously.

'But... but we hate each other, ' he said.

Truphoria's two primary religious factions have put their differences aside to face the tyranny of their common enemy in unity. Well... mostly in unity.

Howie, his prophetic hero days now (with any luck) behind him, and Adrienne, now a freelance apothecary surgeon, return to Serpus to live near her beloved Uncle Archie. But things are a bit different than their last visit: Seth Crey is the King of Adem now, and bad blood from the events of their previous visit still remains.

Not only that, but there's a mysterious young man on their heels calling himself the Prophet, and he has a concerning obsession with witch-burning... and he isn't just limiting himself to Qattren and her poor dresses.

Not to mention the entity known simply as the Bastard, who's holding a couple of grudges of his own...