Celestial Chess

In the twelfth century, the Devil walked the earth. And one medieval monk—Geoffrey Gervaise, master of every forbidden are of church and darkness—challenged him to the ultimate game of life, mind, and soul—Celestial Chess. But the game was never finished, as the monk, branded a heretic, died at the stake before he could make the final move—and free his soul.

Across the immortal reaches of eternity, the two are locked in a match suspended between heaven and hell until American scholar David Fairchild deciphers that Westchurch Manuscript—a mystical poem chronicling their eight centuries of murder, torment, and demonic struggle. Electrified by the chance to confront the Prince of Darkness—and haunted by the ghostly lament of the Sorcerer—Fairchild picks up the last piece of the game and moves the cosmic balance of light and dark in the final favor of man.