Celestial Chess

In the twelfth century, the Devil walked the earth. And one medieval monk - Geoffrey Gervais, master of every forbidden art 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 the 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.