The hARLOT and the grail trilogy

History is written by the victor. So it's no surprise that the most patriarchal institution in human history was, in fact, founded by a woman. Her central role in the ministry of Jesus was soon eclipsed by apostles and denigrated by popes—but never forgotten. Unbeknownst to the Church, her progeny has preserved her legacy in secret. Two thousand years later, that buried legacy is approaching a reckoning.

Christendom's greatest mystery isn't the location of the Grail.

Paris, 1940. A swastika hangs from the Eiffel Tower.

Professor Sebastian von Kessel—archaeologist and heir to an industrial empire—has until Christmas Eve to solve an eight-hundred-year-old Templar mystery. Fail, and SS-Gruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich will take everything he treasures: his family, his fortune, even his name.

Sarah Goldstein needs him to succeed.

Pulled from Dachau to decipher her murdered uncle's Templar journals, Sarah is hiding a mystery of her own. For two thousand years, the women of her bloodline have shared an extraordinary gift: to touch an object is to feel the echoes of its past. A gift her mother taught her to protect—but could never explain.

And then there is Kurt.

An infamous Einsatzgruppe commander, he's determined to see his brother succeed—until Sarah's gift reveals the Grail is within reach and duty gives way to something darker. The brother Sebastian loves becomes the thing he fears the most.

Richard the Lionheart's lost letters are the map: The Louvre. The Vatican's Secret Archives. The Church of the Holy Sepulcher. Notre Dame. Three tortured souls on one impossible quest.

They're not chasing a relic—they're chasing a truth the Church cannot survive.

A sweeping novel of faith, defiance, and forbidden love in the darkest hour of the twentieth century—perfect for readers who crave Grail mysteries, Templar conspiracies, Vatican secrets, and speculative history.

2020.

For many, this will become the "Forgotten Year," but in New Orleans, Rebecca Bouchon and her father René are on the frontlines of humanity's battle against a global pandemic. Becca, an ER doctor, is waging a relentless fight against the novel respiratory virus, while her father's groundbreaking research in gene editing has propelled him to the pantheon of scientific gods alongside Darwin and Newton.

When a local news article celebrates Becca's imminent departure as a Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) volunteer in Ramallah, she unexpectedly receives a mysterious package addressed to her deceased grandmother. Inside the package is a faded field journal bearing an infamous name and an ominous symbol of hate. Suddenly, unearthing the Nazi skeletons in her family's closet takes center stage, and with the assistance of a dashing Israeli archaeologist, she quickly realizes the only way to prevent a second Holocaust is to unravel the two-thousand-year-old mystery of the Holy Grail.

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1187.

Saladin's Muslim army is gobbling up Crusader Kingdoms like an insatiable cloud of locusts. Only Jerusalem still flies the banner of Christ, and Prince Geoffrey Plantagenet must defend his faith's most revered shrine—the Holy Sepulcher—if he's to shed the stigma of his bastard birth. But Stefan d'Agenais, his closest companion and Outremer's last remaining Knights Templar, has other priorities.

Armed with an ancient Arab codex, the mysterious Jewish girl they rescued in the desert has opened Stefan's eyes—and heart—and sent the Englishmen on a perilous journey beneath the Temple Mount, into a subterranean world where air and light are more precious than gold. Men and dreams will die, kingdoms will be shattered, and the Vatican's stranglehold on Christianity will hang precariously in the balance.

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