M. T. Anderson is popular within the young readers universe as the award-winning and bestselling author of Feed. Nicked will be his debut for an adult readership.
The book will be on shelves July 23 from Pantheon. The year is 1087, and a pox is sweeping through the Italian port city of Bari.
When a lowly monk is visited by Saint Nicholas in his dreams, he interprets the vision as a call to action. But his superiors, and the power brokers they serve, have different plans for the tender-hearted Brother Nicephorus.
Enter Tyun, a charismatic treasure hunter renowned for “liberating” holy relics from their tombs. The seven-hundred-year-old bones of Saint Nicholas rest in distant Myra, Tyun explains, and they’re rumored to weep a mysterious liquid that can heal the sick.