A transdimensional anthropologist can't keep herself from interfering
with Earth's darkest period of history in this brilliant science fiction
debut.
In medieval Italy, Niccolucio, a young Florentine Carthusian monk, leads
a devout life until the Black Death kills all of his brothers, leaving
him alone and filled with doubt. Habidah, an anthropologist from an
alien world racked by plague, is overwhelmed by the suffering. Unable to
maintain her neutrality, she saves Niccolucio from the brink of death.
Habidah discovers that neither her home's plague nor her assignment on
Niccolucio's ravaged planet are as she's been led to believe. Suddenly
the pair are drawn into a worlds-spanning conspiracy to topple an empire
larger than the human imagination can contain.