the Angel of Pilgrim's Wayhouse

The Angel of the Pilgrims' Way-house.At a lonely crossroads stands the Pilgrims' Way-house: half-inn, half-shrine, a place of stew and quarrels, whispered prayers and broken cups. Wayfarers come and go - a runaway novice, a disgraced knight, a merchant couple who can't stop fighting, a pilgrim on the edge of death - but the staff remain, bound together by resentment, confession, silence, and need.Into this fragile household comes a stranger. He claims he was summoned by the shrine itself - though no one, not even he, believes it fully. The Banshee shrieks that he belongs; the Centaur insists he work for his supper; the Satyr sees in him a new audience; the Dryad overshares into his silence; the Sphinx tests him with riddles; the Golem watches without a word.Is he an angel, a fool, or just another mouth to feed?In the nights that follow, the Way-house will be tested by love, betrayal, hunger, and death. Guests will be harboured and turned away. Secrets will be blurted, laughter will curdle into despair, tenderness will arrive in the wrong form at the wrong time.Blending dark comedy with mythic resonance, The Angel of the Pilgrims' Way-house is a novel of strangers and intimates, of bodies that betray us and words that wound us, of the absurdity and the necessity of trying to care for one another when no one is easy to love.