Bones of the Priory
About this ebook
After five centuries of wandering, Sister Jacobine—known to some as Alice Fisher—returns to the crumbling ruins of the Amesbury Priory, where her extraordinary healing gift first changed her life forever.
A letter, written in a trembling hand and signed with a name no living soul should remember, summons the immortal nun home. But what awaits among the ancient graves and ruined walls is more than memory and regret. Buried beneath the Priory’s stones lies a centuries-old mystery, and an ancient secret that was never meant to survive the ages.
When her homecoming turns deadly, Alice discovers that one of her sisters has endured the centuries alongside her. Twisted by envy, consumed by obsession, and clinging to life far beyond its natural span, the woman will stop at nothing to claim the gift she believes should have been hers.
Now Sister Jacobine must confront the darkest chapter of her past in a supernatural thriller that stretches from the ruins of Amesbury Priory to the shadowed stones of Stonehenge itself.
Immortality is a gift that never stops taking... and some debts refuse to die.
A Nun With A Gun is a series of short stories and novelettes about Sister Jacobine, the Pope’s hitwoman. They are best read in order.
1.0 Feet of Clay
2.0 A Port in the Storm
3.0 Excommunication
4.0 Requiem Mass
5.0 Den of Lions
6.0 The Narrow Gate
6.5 The Book of Jacobine (Omnibus)
7.0 Through a Glass Darkly (coming soon!)
8.0 Bones of the Priory
9.0 The Things That Shall Come Upon Them (coming soon!)
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About the author
Mark Posey is the author of the award-losing Nun With A Gun thrillers*, a series featuring Sister Jacobine, a nun with a habit of making bad people pay. Readers have called the stories “sharp,” “darkly funny,” and “alarmingly satisfying.” The author calls them “therapy with a body count.” (*No awards were harmed in the writing of this series.)
Mark writes thrillers for readers who don’t mind a little dirt under the nails — stories with emotional weight, lean prose, and characters who rarely do the right thing for the right reason. His work lives somewhere between noir, revenge fantasy, and literary grit, though he avoids calling it any of those because that sounds like marketing.
When he’s not writing fiction, Mark also works as a professional editor and story consultant. His editing blog offers straight talk for indie and traditionally published authors alike — especially the ones who are tired of being told to “find their voice” by people who can’t define what voice is.
He believes in clarity over cleverness, clean narrative over trend-chasing, and that semicolons are fine, but you probably don’t need as many as you think.
He lives in Canada, which explains the politeness, but not the sarcasm.
