During one of the darkest periods in the history of Europe, the Prince Bishop of Bamberg has falsely accused Veronica's father of witchcraft, arrested him, and ordered him to be burned at the stake. Refusing to heed the warning of her father that she escape before she is also accused, Veronica seeks to save her father and is caught in a fight which she had never imagined she would be a part and a fight her father wanted her to avoid - a three-way war among the mortals, the witches, and the Innocents. With the mistakes of her youth resulting in the false accusations feared by her father, Veronica discovers that her only chance to prove her own innocence is to form an alliance with one of the most powerful and infamous wielders of magic in the region and to form an unlikely alliance with the Prince Bishop's nephew with whom she has become unwisely infatuated. The Innocent is the first book in The Bamberg Trials series by author Stephen Reid Andrews.