{"product_id":"the-priest-s-damnation-the-devotions-quartet","title":"The Priest’s Damnation (The Devotions Quartet)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cspan\u003eSome fires are lit in devotion. Others are born in defiance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBook I of The Devotions Quartet, Fire\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn postwar Brooklyn, faith holds a wounded community together while the past smolders quietly beneath the surface.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFather Lorenzo Bellini has belonged to the Church since childhood. The collar defines him. The parish depends on him. His days move between altar and confessional, where duty demands the steady extinguishing of every human longing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMaria Miller arrived in America as an Italian war bride, carrying the ashes of a continent still burning behind her. Married, devout, and determined to build a life from the ruins of war, she moves carefully through Brooklyn with grief in one hand and hope in the other.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Maria kneels in Lorenzo’s confessional, something impossible stirs between them. Recognition passes through the thin screen before either can name it. A quiet spark that neither faith nor distance can easily extinguish. What begins as confession deepens into something far more dangerous. In stolen conversations and moments suspended between prayer and silence, their bond grows into a hidden fire that cannot remain buried forever.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs their attachment deepens, the boundaries around them tighten. Marriage, priesthood, family, and the watchful judgment of a devout community close in. What has begun between them cannot exist in the open without destroying everything they have vowed to protect.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDecades later, a routine DNA test uncovers a buried truth and reveals a secret love that reshaped a family’s history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA sweeping gothic epic spanning two continents and generations\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Priest’s Damnation\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e explores the cost of devotion and the dangerous power of a love that refuses to die.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a world governed by vows, they must face a question neither scripture nor sacrifice can answer.\u003cbr\u003eIs devotion proven by the fires we resist,\u003cbr\u003eor by the ones we cannot help but burn in?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Devotions Quartet\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a four-part literary cycle in which love confronts faith through the language of the elements:\u003cbr\u003eFire, Earth, Water, and Wind.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEach novel asks what devotion demands and what it consumes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFollowed by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Rabbi’s Beloved (Earth)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Manbo’s Witness (Water)\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books Prime","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45914580418751,"sku":"c3203bd3-129e-4c60-9956-22c0feb53957","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0761\/7550\/7647\/files\/7c5881ba91a1e7aebf3f58853016313b.jpg?v=1785059922","url":"https:\/\/books-prime.com\/products\/the-priest-s-damnation-the-devotions-quartet","provider":"Books Prime","version":"1.0","type":"link"}