Candlelit Silence

Characters from the novel, Candlelit Silence: A novel about the Plague.

Paschal de Saint-Clair wants to prove he's a thief, not a murderer. Sir Baudwin Napier wants to resign from knighthood and be with a family that loves him. Plague doctor Klaus Fleischer wants to save England, then the world, from the Black Death once and for all.

Meanwhile, the conceited 3rd Earl of Devonshire needs to send a plague doctor to London, as the city has lost its last to the disease. Rather than execute de Saint-Clair for his charges of murder, he decides to put him to good use as Dr. Fleischer's escort. To keep an eye on the criminal and protect the doctor, he sees no one better than Sir Baudwin.

At the beginning of their journey, these three dissimilar men are indifferent to each other at best. By the end, though, they will need to have learned to accept and care for one another, whether they like it or not. Because the only thing worse than how the plague ravages the body is how fear of it ravages the mind . . .

A fictional historical suspense novel by Noëlle McHenry, set during the English Restoration, about three men finding friendship in unlikely places.

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