The Black Death, the first volume in the NOT WITHOUT MERCY series, is the account of a family caught in the dawn of the world's most dangerous outbreak, the Black Plague of 1348 that took the lives of over twenty-five million people, over one-third of the population of Europe. The Black Plague caused moral malaise throughout the land that grew greed, selfishness, insecurity, fear, brutality, and wickedness. It caused the fearful to become faithless, and the faithful to become fearless.The Church grappled to explain it at the same time its clergy was either dying or hiding from its...