#1 – Changeling
Italy, 1460. Luca Vero is expelled from his monastery after questioning accepted teaching and is recruited into the secret Order of Darkness to investigate supposed signs of the approaching end of days. His first mission concerns a convent whose nuns appear to be suffering possession and…
#2 – Stormbringers
Luca and his companions reach an Italian coastal town where a charismatic boy called Johann is leading children on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. His followers believe that divine intervention will open a path across the sea and prove that the end of the world is near.…
#3 – Fools’ Gold
The Order sends Luca and his companions to Venice to investigate counterfeit coins and the unexplained disruption of trade. Posing as a merchant household, they enter a city of banks, markets, gambling and Carnival disguises. Their inquiry draws them toward alchemy, political influence and claims that…
#4 – Dark Tracks
In 1461 the travellers enter an Austrian village gripped by a dancing mania. Men and women appear unable to stop moving, and fear of demonic possession spreads as exhaustion and death follow. Luca searches for a rational cause while Isolde and Ishraq face direct danger from…