Sola is a sin-eater, a mystic traveller who sits at the bedsides of the dying and listens to them confess their sins. As each sin comes out she eats them, taking away that burden from them, purifying them, taking their wickeness, cleaning their soul and guaranteeing them a place in Heaven. For a price. But when Sola arrives at the castle of the Magus, she has an agenda all of her own.
Stephen Deas is an engineer in the aerospace industry, working on communications and imaging technology in the defence sector. He is married with two children and lives near Writtle in Essex.