In a hidden corner of the Vatican, a cartographer discovers an ancient atlas containing names of people erased from history. Each name holds a fragment of a long-buried war between truth and memory.
The air in the Vatican’s forgotten archives tasted of vellum and dust. Not the kind of dust
that settled overnight, but the type that had seeped into mortar, bound by centuries of
whispered secrets and silent omissions. Beneath the Jesuit Library, in a sub-chamber
without a name, Luca De Angelis adjusted his cracked spectacles and exhaled into the
chilled silence. His fingers, ink-stained and slightly trembling, hovered over a locked
chest embedded into the floor—an artifact so old it hadn’t been listed in the last three
inventories. Or the ten before that.
Published on 2025-10-30 by Jam eBooks