Angel Time

Toby O'Dare has spent years as a hired killer known as Lucky the Fox. He moves from one solitary, deadly job to the next, and he thinks of himself as a man already dead inside. Once, long ago, he dreamed of becoming a priest, but that life is far behind him.

Then, in the middle of another assignment, a stranger appears and turns out to be a seraph, an angel. The visitor offers Toby something he never expected: the chance to use his skills to save lives rather than end them. Toby takes it.

The task carries him out of the present and into thirteenth-century England. There he finds a frightening world in which children vanish or die without explanation, and in which Jews stand accused of ritual murder. Toby must act in the middle of this fear and hatred, and the mission tests him with danger, flight, loyalty, betrayal, and the possibility of love.

Angel Time is the first book in Anne Rice's Songs of the Seraphim series. She is best known for Interview with the Vampire. Here she tells a story of redemption, following a man who must decide whether he can turn away from the darkness he has lived in.