Flesh and Spirit by Carol Berg

 Flesh and Spirit by Carol Berg (Author of Breathe and Bone)

In a land torn apart by civil war, pestilence, and shaky alliances, a man branded a traitor may be the world's only hope...

The rebellious son of a long line of pureblood cartographers and diviners, Valen has spent most of his life trying to escape what society ordained for him. His own mother predicted that he will meet his end in water and blood and ice. And her divination seems fulfilled when a comrade abandons Valen, half dead, in a rainy wilderness, addicted to an enchantment that converts pain to pleasure and possessing only a stolen book of maps.

Offered sanctuary in a nearby monastery, Valen discovers that his book - rumoured to lead men into the realm of angels - gains him entry into a world of secret societies, doomsayers, monks, princes and madmen, all seeking to unlock the mystery of the coming dark age. Now to preserve the lands of Navronne, Valen must face what he fled so long ago. For the key to Navronne's doom is buried in a half forgotten myth - and in the secrets of his own past...