A floundering priest. A woman in a wheelchair. An ancient curse. On the run from a cursed king and his army of assassins, priest Niels Bosch seeks sanctuary in rural Briscona. What he gets is a barrage of intimate and unsettling questions from his new cantor, Beldenka Nadinov. Questions he can't risk answering. Accompanied by his friend and bodyguard Mikhandor, and Bel's protector Leks, the pair set out to challenge the mad king. But...