When Father Antonio is found dead inside a confessional booth in St. Peter's Basilica, the Vatican calls it a tragedy. But Inspector Alessandro Moretti knows better. The body was staged. The death was no accident. And when another priest is found dead days later?his name erased from records?Moretti realises he isn't chasing a murderer.
He's chasing a cover-up.
As Moretti and Detective Claudia Ricci dig deeper, whispers of a name surface from the shadows of history: Il Profeta?a secret order that was meant to die centuries ago. But the truth is clear: it never died. It only disappeared.
Now, the Vatican's most powerful figures are working to erase every trace of the investigation. Files are disappearing. Witnesses are vanishing. And Moretti and Ricci are running out of time. Their only hope is a defrocked priest with access to the Vatican's hidden archives, a man who once tried to expose the Church's darkest secrets?and nearly lost his life for it.
But some secrets don't stay buried.
Some enemies don't forgive.
And when the most powerful institution in the world decides you're a threat... there's nowhere left to hide.
A gripping, high-stakes thriller packed with murder, mystery, and a conspiracy that threatens to shake the foundations of the Vatican itself.
