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Death was supposed to find Lucien de Montfort beneath Jerusalem.
In the late twelfth century, a young Templar knight is mortally wounded during a desperate battle beneath the Temple Mount. Given a final drink of water from an old wooden cup dismissed as little more than firewood, Lucien expects to die among his brothers.
Instead, he awakens.
His wounds are gone. His strength has returned. And as the years pass, he discovers a terrifying truth: death no longer claims him.
As centuries unfold, Lucien adopts new names and new lives, walking through some of history's darkest chapters. He survives the Black Death, the Hundred Years' War, the fall of Constantinople, the American Revolution, and the Civil War. Each time he should die, he returns. Each time he loses another piece of the life he once knew.
While kingdoms rise and fall around him, Lucien searches for answers. Why was he spared? What power keeps him alive? And why does an ordinary wooden cup remain unchanged while everything else he loves fades into history?
By the time he becomes Samuel Cross, a Confederate soldier marching into the slaughter at Gettysburg, Lucien has spent nearly seven hundred years watching friends, families, and nations disappear. The gift that once seemed miraculous has become a burden too heavy to bear.
For everyone else, death is an ending.
For Lucien, it is the one destination he can never reach.
A sweeping historical epic spanning seven centuries, The Long Road Home is a story of faith, memory, sacrifice, and a man searching for the peace that time refuses to grant.
In the late twelfth century, a young Templar knight is mortally wounded during a desperate battle beneath the Temple Mount. Given a final drink of water from an old wooden cup dismissed as little more than firewood, Lucien expects to die among his brothers.
Instead, he awakens.
His wounds are gone. His strength has returned. And as the years pass, he discovers a terrifying truth: death no longer claims him.
As centuries unfold, Lucien adopts new names and new lives, walking through some of history's darkest chapters. He survives the Black Death, the Hundred Years' War, the fall of Constantinople, the American Revolution, and the Civil War. Each time he should die, he returns. Each time he loses another piece of the life he once knew.
While kingdoms rise and fall around him, Lucien searches for answers. Why was he spared? What power keeps him alive? And why does an ordinary wooden cup remain unchanged while everything else he loves fades into history?
By the time he becomes Samuel Cross, a Confederate soldier marching into the slaughter at Gettysburg, Lucien has spent nearly seven hundred years watching friends, families, and nations disappear. The gift that once seemed miraculous has become a burden too heavy to bear.
For everyone else, death is an ending.
For Lucien, it is the one destination he can never reach.
A sweeping historical epic spanning seven centuries, The Long Road Home is a story of faith, memory, sacrifice, and a man searching for the peace that time refuses to grant.