The heirs of la madeleine 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 popes—but never forgotten. Unbeknownst to the Church, her progeny has preserved her legacy in secret. Two thousand years later, it's time for a matriarch to step into the spotlight and take centerstage once more.

1940. As Nazi Germany's blitzkrieg engulfs Europe, Africa, and the North Atlantic, Sebastian von Kessel—a brilliant archaeologist and heir to a three-hundred-year-old German industrial dynasty—walks a dangerous line between loyalty and resistance. Publicly compliant with the Reich, he secretly aids Jewish colleagues, a balancing act that turns lethal when he's drawn into the orbit of the SS.

Posted to the Louvre in occupied Paris, Sebastian is blackmailed into continuing a search begun by his murdered mentor: a suppressed Templar secret believed powerful enough to influence the Vatican itself. The man directing the hunt is Reinhard Heydrich, whose interest in ancient relics is anything but academic.

Sebastian's only hope lies with Sarah Weißmann, a Jewish violinist who survived Kristallnacht and the brutality of Dachau—and who possesses an uncanny ability to sense the emotional imprints left behind by objects. Together, they race to decode medieval clues stretching from Paris to Jerusalem, uncovering a heresy buried since the Crusades—one that challenges the foundations of faith, power, and history.

As the Nazis close in and their alliance deepens, Sebastian must decide how far their willing to go to preserve the bloodline—and whether some truths are too dangerous to reveal.

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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