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John had it all. A happy marriage with a wife and child who adored him. No one could've foreseen the devastation just two little words would cause. "Yes, Mother." Life begins unraveling with a short phone call ushering him to his childhood home to settle the estate. Amid the shadows of shame and degradation, Mother lurks, awaiting his arrival. Childhood torments pick up right where they left off the moment he steps foot on the property. John plunges into a dark world where unspeakable pleasure and depraved desires are his to claim as long as he remembers to obey Mother.

England, 1348. The Black Death has taken half the village. Then it takes Elsbeth. Else—healer's daughter, herbwoman, the last person in Ashenmere still boiling water instead of praying—dies of plague and is thrown into a mass grave. Three days later, she claws her way out. The buboes are gone. Her blood runs dark beneath her skin. And when she touches the dying, they heal. The Church sends Brother Callum to investigate—a monk with bruised knees and a faith held together by discipline alone. He expects a fraud.