About The Memory of Death Book 1 Part 1 by Brenda Carroll
Things only get worse for the Chevalier du Morte as he tries desperately tries to extricate himself from the nightmare in which he finds himself. Everyone wants to kill him and some actually succeed. If ever anyone pays up for several lifetimes of Karmic debt, Mark Ramsay is paying the price. As his memory returns in bits and pieces, he begins to understand what is happening to him but finding a way out without losing his head goes from difficult to near impossible. If one of his Brothers of the Order does not kill him and take his head home in a box, then surely his kidnappers will bury him alive. Even confessing and throwing himself on the mercy of the Order’s justice system could end up in execution. All the while, his emotions are in tatters, his loyalty is faltering, and his options are running out. He can become a deserter and spend the rest of his life on the run or he can return to the pious life of a Warrior Monk.
Hard decisions must be made. Deadly situations must be overcome. Honor must be upheld. And the Will of God will be done. One way or another and the possibilities seem endless.
My epic fantasy series follows the adventures and misadventures of Mark Andrew Ramsay who is a member of the Ruling Council of Twelve for the Red Cross of Gold poor Knights of Solomon’s Temple. The series has three other secondary protagonists who are friends of Sir Ramsay.
Even though he is over 800 years old, his long history with Knights of the Order is about to crumble. His mission to recover a deserter turns into a disaster when he loses his memory temporarily and profoundly. He is abducted by the people who were harboring the deserter. One of his kidnappers wants to pry the secrets of his mysteries from him and the whereabouts of his Grand Master. She is desperate for the elixir that will give Aimmortality as described by the deserter.
The outcome of the entire plot perpetrated against the Order is magical and dramatic when the Grand Master has to intervene, but a chain of events that will echo back in history and far into the future as the saga unfolds has already been set in motion.