nt history, Leo XIV, aka Shepherd, has just been elected by the conclave of cardinals. The bishop from New Zealand takes the Chair of Saint Peter and wastes no time beginning a mission to save the world. Given the vast access behind the papal curtain, Shepherd soon finds more hidden beneath the Vatican than just an Archive of old books. A trail of clues leads him to find a prisoner held for centuries by the church. Shepherd is pushed into a conundrum of moral and spiritual judgment that could alter the fate of all humanity in this tale of demons, deities, bishops, and pawns.