A devastating plague is sweeping the continent of Greater Virren….

Its source is unknown, its dominance of the property near complete. In occasions of grim desperation, pestilence has given method to superstition, as well as the citizenry are actually more divided than ever before.

Yet the city of Rothenberg continues to be inexplicably untouched….

The council is continuing to grow convinced of their immunity, even as their neighbors are consumed before them. As the globe teeters for the brink of collapse, a zealous religious order has about The Ritual reemerged. They claim to can see the source from the plague…but can they be trusted?

The plague will never reach Rothenberg….

Katarina Lorenz, a noble of the town and veteran of the civil war that shook the continent, remains to be unconvinced. She conspires to keep the town with her companion Tannhauser to find out what’s really going on beyond its wall space.

The Ritual may be the first within a trilogy of gripping high-fantasy novelettes. The debut possesses all of the beloved hallmarks supporters of the genre will recognize, but is distinguished by its gritty atmosphere and confrontation with a few of the most unsettling chapters of human history.