The Rose upon the Rood of Time (Dark Spiral Book 1)

The Lady has seven faces. The most terrible are the red and the black. For centuries, the Spiral has labored to suppress the chthonic cults, but now the dams are breaking. Daily, the sweetness ebbs from the icons of the peaceful Lady, and the common folk, behind closed doors, keep icons to La Teine and Tel Atael. Pressed under the heel of an invader king, the people pray that vessels to the forbidden aspects of the Lady will be born among their daughters. The shades will cross back from the Telesterion. The demons will rise from the Ignis. There will be flame and darkness. There will be sweetness.