Tyriel was an archangel once. Then he loved a mortal woman, and his Father cursed him to die and be reborn - forever - carrying the memory of every life into the next.
Three thousand years later, the weight has become almost unsurvivable. Every incarnation adds another soul to what he carries. Every death presses him deeper into the burden of what he is and what he left behind - a daughter, born in the ruins of a burning city, abandoned when duty called him home. One mistake. Three thousand years of consequences.
In his final life, a soldier and a scholar in a war-torn desert, he finds the woman he has been searching for across every century. She does not know what she is to him. He does not know how to tell her. And the forces that have hunted him across every life are closing in.
But so is Michael. And Michael, Tyriel is beginning to understand, was never coming to destroy him.
THE CANDLE is a dark literary fantasy about the weight of love carried across eternity - and the mercy that waits at the end of it.