Former government assassin Toby O'Dare is summoned to the fifteenth century by the angel Malchiah to investigate a case of poisoning and to search out the truth about a haunting, and the quest reconnects O'Dare with his past and offers him the promise of salvation.
Contract killer Toby O'Dare accepts a seraph's offer to leave his violent existence in order to save lives, and finds himself transported to thirteenth-century England and challenged to defend falsely accused Jewish citizens.
Former government assassin Toby O'Dare is summoned to fifteenth-century Rome at the height of the Italian Renaissance to solve a poisoning murder linked to an earthbound spirit, a case complicated by dark ecclesiastical plots.