A Procession of Ashes - A Medieval Horror Novella

Piacenza, Italy. 1349 CE. Father Matteo has shepherded a dying flock through plague and lime, but nothing in his missals prepared him for the Brotherhood of Broken Flesh-a ragged procession of flagellants who turn suffering into scripture. When their leader, Fra Aureliano, raises a living Psalm and the faithful begin to speak its geometry in flesh, devotion itself takes on a fevered life. Beside him stands Tommaso Bellini, an empiric physician tracing the hidden pattern between faith and decay. Together they seek to silence a Psalm that should never have been sung-and learn that belief, once awakened, does not easily sleep again. If you loved The Name of the Rose or Between Two Fires, this slow-burn, lingering medieval horror will feel like coming home to a darker age.