Changeling - Philippa Gregory (Order of Darkness #1)

THE YEAR IS 1453 AND ALL SIGNS POINT TO IT BEING THE END OF THE WORLD.

Accused of heresy and expelled from his monastery, handsome seventeen-year-old Luca Vero is recruited by a mysterious stranger to record the end of times across Europe. Commanded by sealed orders, Luca is sent to map the fears of Christendom, and travel to the very frontier of good and evil.

Seventeen-year-old Isolde, a Lady Abbess, is trapped in a nunnery to prevent her claiming her rich inheritance. As the nuns in her care are driven mad by strange visions, walking in their sleep, and showing bleeding wounds, Luca is sent to investigate and all the evidence points to Isolde's criminal guilt. Outside in the yard they are building a pyre to burn her for witchcraft.

The first title in the exciting and atmospheric new Young Adult series, Order of Darkness, from the queen of historical fiction.