In 1348, the Black Death took everything physician Benedict Percy loved-his wife, his children, and eventually his faith.Benedict had spent his life trying to heal the sick, but when the plague reached his own home, all his knowledge meant nothing. Broken by grief and unable to accept what he had lost, he turned to a forbidden manuscript and called upon something he did not fully understand.It offered him the power to heal.Benedict accepted.For more than seven hundred years, he has walked through the world's worst outbreaks as a mysterious figure known as the Plague Saint. Hidden behind the mask of a plague doctor, he can pull the dying back from the edge of death and cure illnesses no medicine can touch.But his miracles are never free.Every person Benedict saves becomes part of a bargain, whether they understand it or not. Somewhere behind every cure is a price, and the demon bound to Benedict has spent centuries collecting from the desperate, the frightened, and the grieving.Then, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Salem, Massachusetts, Dr. Eleanor "Ellie" Ward encounters something medicine cannot explain.A critically ill patient who can barely breathe suddenly walks out of the hospital completely healed. Security footage shows that just before his recovery, a strange man wearing a plague doctor's mask entered his room.Then it happens again.More patients recover. Families begin reporting unexplained deaths. Dark marks appear beneath people's skin. The dead begin showing up at windows and doorways. And every night, at exactly 3:13, a bell rings where no bell should exist.With Detective Gabriel Rook at her side, Ellie begins searching for the man behind the mask. What they uncover is far worse than either of them imagined.Benedict Percy is real.So is the demon inside him.And after centuries of feeding on fear, grief, and desperate promises, it is finally strong enough to take more than individual lives.Now Benedict must face the truth he has spent hundreds of years avoiding. He was never only a victim of the bargain. He made choices. People suffered because of them. And if he wants to stop what he helped create, he may have to surrender the one thing he has never been willing to let go of-the hope that somehow, someday, he could undo the death of his family.THE PLAGUE SAINT: MERCY OF THE DAMNED is a supernatural Gothic horror thriller about grief, faith, guilt, medical ethics, and the dangerous choices people make when death is standing in front of them.Because when someone is desperate enough to live, almost anything can sound like mercy.And some miracles are not gifts.They are debts waiting to be collected. Read more
