Celestial Chess — Thomas Bontly

In the twelfth century, the Devil walked the earth. And one medieval monk -- Geoffrey Gervaise, master of every forbidden are of church and darkness -- challenged him to the ultimate game of life, mind, and soul -- Celestial Chess. But the game was never finished, as the monk, branded a heretic, died at the stake before he could make the final move -- and free his soul.

Across the immortal reaches of eternity, the two are locked in a match suspended between heaven and hell until American scholar David Fairchild deciphers that Westchurch Manuscript -- a mystical poem chronicling their eight centuries of murder, torment, and demonic struggle. Electrified by the chance to confront the Prince of Darkness -- and haunted by the ghostly lament of the Sorcerer -- Fairchild picks up the last piece of the game and moves the cosmic balance of light and dark in the final favor of man.