He ' s full of love , he ' s an amazing dude . <| sep |> Judith Merkle Riley . She wrote historical novels that had a dash of romance and elements of the fantastic . For instance , the one that is a series is about a woman that hears the voice of God and can heal people by just touching them . Which makes it seem really religious , but it totally isn ' t . She has a lot of crazy characters . Like there ' s this old guy that is a con artist sort of , he makes fake relics to sell to pilgrims but he ' s really an alchemist trying to turn lead into gold or whatnot . In the second book there are a couple of ghosts . Some of the books have an odd mix of really heavy stuff going on , but also humor and it ' s a strange but good balance . Anyway , they probably aren ' t the best books ever , nor super historically accurate , but I love them .