Coming soon - The sequel to "Mask of Death"

The story of Elizabeth Malatesta continues.  But now she knows exactly what she wants.  We are doing develomental edits now but this is the current book summary:

Race with the Black Death

Elizabeth Malatesta, the sentient flesh-eater, one who hunts humans for food, commands a growing army of followers. Having ravaged the southwestern Kingdom of France and the northwestern Italian city-states, Elizabeth has found her closest living blood relatives. Two children, Maddalena and Bartolome, and their mother. If Elizabeth captures them all, their combined blood will enable her to reverse the slow degeneration of her body. She nearly had them all, but their mother engineered the children’s escape before her demise.

The children have found temporary refuge with wandering troubadours whose many talents enable them to survive. The troupe is constantly moving to outrun the plague, but they find it in many places. The troop’s retinue includes the acrobat Dioneo, the broad-shouldered dwarf, Uwe, his close friend, the dancing Trippetta, and Laura, a woman with one-half her body scarred from surviving the Great Mortality. Maddalena becomes reluctantly attached to Jai Ling, a hunter of vampires and a specialist in bow weapons. Upon learning that the Pope, residing in the French city of Avignon, is offering a vast reward for the children, the group sets off to collect it, unaware they are pursued by a relentless hunter whose hunger drives her.

Picking up immediately following the events of “Mask of Death,” “Racing from the Plague” continues the story of life during the Great Mortality, or “The Black Death.” As you will see, many frightening creatures of legend, who are spoken of in hushed tones, are very real.