Roberta, a priest of the Public Church, is assigned as the head priest of Dietmarschen. A remote backwater at the far northern edge of the world. A place so unimportant that the Church sends people there when they want them to disappear.
The position is handed to her immediately after her predecessor mysteriously disappears. No body. No note. No explanation. Just an empty office and a town full of people who do not ask questions.
Roberta approaches her new post with wariness. Something is wrong in Dietmarschen. The townsfolk are too calm. The records are too clean. The previous priest vanished and no one seems to care.
She begins to quietly investigate the Duke of Dietmarschen, Ulrich. The lord of this frozen land. A man who, by all accounts, has held his lordship for over 300 years.
By his own admission, he is an immortal. One who has lived a life no ordinary human could ever know. He has seen empires rise and fall. He has outlived everyone he ever loved. He has watched centuries pass while his own face never changed.
Now a priest sent to be forgotten must decide what to do with the truth she has uncovered. Is Ulrich a monster to be destroyed? A miracle to be studied? Or just a tired old man who has been alone for three hundred years?
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