Balthasar

15th-century Lübeck — the shining heart of the Hanseatic cities, where power and money, faith and sin intersect. When Balthasar Wakenstede, an apothecary’s apprentice from the provinces, loses his heart to Lucia, the most beautiful girl in the city and the daughter of a councilman, he is drawn into a game where the old truths no longer apply.

To win his beloved and prove his worth, he joins a brotherhood of noble assassins — and begins to craft poisons instead of medicines. Before long, the young man is in too deep, forced to face the grim truth that sin and righteousness can dwell within the same soul.