The Chief of Staff to the President of the United States dies sprawled across the Great Seal in the Oval Office, his body arranged like a warning. Senator Madge Roberts is the one who finds him. Within minutes, she’s treated as suspect, witness, and potential pawn in a game no one will explain. And the cameras meant to prove her innocence have mysteriously gone dark.

Hundreds of miles away in the Blue Ridge foothills, Zady Jones is trying—and failing—to build a quiet life. Her uncle has been murdered, her sister is fighting her way back from unspeakable trauma, and Scott Larson, the ex-Jesuit whose testimony shook the world’s religions, is still a walking target. When their fortified farmhouse goes into lockdown, Zady begins to suspect the trouble isn’t local. It’s coordinated.

Then Madge presents Zady and Larson with something they can’t ignore: a letter found on the dead chief of staff. A message addressed to “Galahad.” A reference to a mysterious casket, seven stars, and a time “when gods walked the earth.”

As political violence surges and Vatican insiders whisper about prophecies, apostasy, and the year of three popes, Zady and Larson are pulled back into a hidden world of ancient power and modern ambition. The lies they uncovered in The Ignoble Lie were only the beginning. Someone is reviving an old order. Someone with reach. Someone with a plan.

And this time, the truth isn’t just dangerous.

It might be divine…and deadly.