The Road to Damascus: K-Nurse Book One (K-Nurse, The Knight-Nurses of the Order of St. John 1)

When a magic ritual goes awry at the end of the First Crusade, a group of Knights Hospitaller are mistakenly made immortal, doomed to be reborn after each death. They form the Knight Nurses of the Order of St. John and work as caregivers and healers in each new life. But they don’t just give comfort and aid to the sick: the knights, each with a unique magical gift, battle the Returned, an evil corporation from another dimension that’s hell-bent on destroying beauty, diversity, and tolerance. In The Road to Damascus , the first book of the K-Nurse series, the council’s seneschal, Paul, discovers a baby in a dumpster. Against his better judgment, he adopts little Aurora, who, inexplicably, shares the knight-nurses’ magic powers. As Paul struggles to parent a sulky, magic-slinging teenager, he and his fellow knight-nurses face their biggest battle with the Returned in centuries. Despite his instinct to protect his daughter, Paul realizes that Aurora represents their greatest hope of victory. The Knight Nurses of the Order of St. John is set in present-day America. It’s a tale of world-weary warrior-nurses who fight against hatred of “the other” in its myriad forms and against the long slide toward authoritarianism. “One of the things I love the most is the idea of the k-nurses being healers as well as warriors. Not only do they destroy, but they create. They aren’t mindless zealots or brutish warriors, but enlightened and cultured protectors on more than one front of a colossal war. Such a great take.” Goodreads Review