The Crippled Angel Book Three of 'The Crucible'

The world that Thomas Neville knows is crumbling about him. The Holy Mother Church of Rome is losing its power and men are coming to question the nature of religion and the role of those who rule them by sword and cross. Thomas knows this is not merely the dawning of a new time when men try to think and judge for themselves but a direct result of the rift in the fabric of the world. Demons have escaped their prison and are trying to breach the very gates of heaven. The great archangel Michael gave Thomas the task of finding the demons who now dwell in human form, and exposing their evil natures. To accomplish this, Thomas had to turn his back on Holy orders and return to his once lofty noble connections. Doing so, he discovered old friends, a new love, and temptations that will try his conscienceand his very soul. Thomas is beginning to think that all that he knows may not be true. Faced with a mortal love that he desperately wants and fears, he knows that time is growing short. And the choice that he makes will reshape the world.

Sara Douglass was born in Penola, a small farming settlement in the south of Australia.  She has a Ph.D. in Early Modern English History.  Since 1995 Sara has been Australia's leading author of fantasy and one of its top novelists.  She lives in Tasmania.