Book Description

"It is the time of the Inquisition, and mass conversion, terror, and swift trials determine who will live and who will burn. Presiding over all of this, Prior Tomás de Torquemada's duty is to peer within the hearts and minds of his fellow men to detect faith or blasphemy. Then, one day, the prior is presented with a book unlike any he has ever beheld: The Compendium of Srem. It is not long before the prior realizes that the Compendium is no ordinary book, but a volume that could well contain all the terror and devilry the tribunals work to annihilate. The prior is convinced he must destroy the book before it works more evil, yet no one who has held the book is to be trusted. And it may be that those who possess this mysterious book are, in fact, possessed by it"--Book cover.