If a life can be measured in blows and parries, papal agent Michel le Morne has filled his first twenty-eight years to the brim. Over the course of a night with his latest target, he recounts the path he took from innocent child through crusader to villainous deceiver, all in service to the Holy See. He must somehow win the sympathy of the younger man he has entrapped in the Vatican's mission to keep Interdict England a part of Saint Peter's Church or risk dying outside Christ's grace!

Eric Baysinger is an Iowan transplanted to Pittsburgh. He is the author of five previous novels: "Nine Attempts" (2007), "brother-out-law" (2018), "Beck & Caul" (2019), "Your Middle Finger's Sense of I" (March 2020), and "Mage in Motion" (October 2020). This is his first novella.