The Last Sacristan

By Samuel Vaz

The Witcher meets The Name of the Rose in this Dark Christian Fantasy, where the last monster hunter is an excommunicated priest and the dead are rising in perfect unison.Corban Vane was once a Sacristan, a Holy warrior sworn into the order of Saint Jude. He wielded blessed oils, spoke rites of severance, and cut corrupted souls from living flesh. Then he used a forbidden exorcism to save a child. The Church called it heresy, and he was casted out.

Now he wanders the backcountry of Aethelburg, a land drowning in the Waxing Dark, a slow entropy where prayers go unanswered, crops fail, and the dead refuse to stay buried.

When he is hired by a skeptical historian to investigate a village where the dead rose as an organized militia, Corban discovers that angels and demons are being binded into corpses, building an army to storm the gates of Heaven itself. They believe that if God sees humanity fighting back, he will finally speak.

To stop this, Corban must perform one act he was never forgiven for, knowing the cost. The rogue army is marching, the dead are rising, and Corban has learned one thing in all his years of exile: God does not need us to defend him, but he asks us to defend each other.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H29DDMN6
• ISBN13: 9798197269669
• Release Date: June 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"