A Yale history professor travels back in time to 15th century France and gets stuck, unable to return to the present. His colleagues organize a rescue and on landing in France become involved in the Hundred Years War.

In the conclusion of the trilogy that began with The Begotten and The Betrayed, the Gifted pursue their holy destiny as Gianni de Capezzano and Daria d'Angelo embark on a perilous journey, pursued by a treacherous enemy, as they make their way toward an uncertain future and their ultimate, blessed destiny.

The year is 1348. Thomas, a disgraced knight, has found a young girl alone in a dead Norman village. An orphan of the Black Death, and an almost unnerving picture of innocence, she tells Thomas that plague is only part of a larger cataclysm--that the fallen angels under Lucifer are rising in a second war on heaven, and that the world of men has fallen behind the lines of conflict. Is it delirium or is it faith? She believes she has seen the angels...