Uproar and Heresy

Volume II - The Latecoming West

“Gorgeously told story of Pope Joan and, centuries later, Jewish lovers in the Third Reich. . . . Andes's sweeping Latecoming West series continues . . . enthralling narrative . . . rich prose, psychological intensity, and attention to what life in the past felt like . . . told through the eyes of two young women set on following their ambitions and their hearts.” 

—BookLife

Is history a timeline of events or a carefully crafted narrative wielded by those in power? A.P. Andes’ genre-bending quartet The Latecoming West weaves multiple storylines across the millennia in pursuit of the answer.

In Volume II, Uproar and Heresy, the brilliant, willful Joan, disguised as a man, shadows the most sovereign position in the religious world. Her gift for scholarship fuels her rise at Lorsch Abbey. But Joan’s true identity looms over every success.

Meanwhile, in 1930s Berlin, star-crossed Polish Jews Rahel Buchwald and Patek Mroz meet amid Hitler’s rise to power as the new order draws them nearer apocalypse. Electricall inventive, Uproar and Heresy brings fierce visionaries and long-silenced demons to life.