THRILLER / SUSPENSE. In this "sublime work of dark fiction" (Intravenous Magazine), set in an alternative World War I, unspeakable creatures roam the grisly trenches, and a ruthless Catholic Inquisition holds sway still powerful, but working in the shadows. When a Father is brutally murdered int he French city of Arras, Poldeck Tacit a determined and unhinged Inquisitor arrives on the scene to investigate the crime. His mission: to protect the Church from those who would seek to destroy it, no matter what the cost. As the Inquisitor strives in vain to establish the truth behind the murder and to uncover the motives of other Vatican servants seeking to undermine him, a beautiful and spirited woman, Sandrine, warns British solider Henry Frost of a mutual foe even more terrible lurking beneath the killing fields an enemy that answers to no human force and wreaks its havoc by the light of the moon.