Pope Joan

<p>They erased her name burned the proof and lied for a thousand years. In the ninth century a woman did the unthinkable. Barred from learning and stripped of power she disguised herself as a man and climbed the most dangerous hierarchy on Earth-scholar cardinal and ultimately Pope. Her name was Joan. Behind Vatican walls she ruled in silence brilliant and defiant carrying a secret that could shatter Christendom: a forbidden love a hidden pregnancy and a truth the Church could not survive. So they erased her. In the present day a scholar uncovers the one artifact the Vatican failed to destroy-Pope Joan's personal diary. What it reveals is not legend but conspiracy proof of a woman who wore the robe and paid for it in blood. As ancient power moves to silence the past once more one question becomes unavoidable: how far will an institution built on secrecy go to protect its greatest lie? Pope Joan: She Wore the Robe is a ruthless Vatican thriller about forbidden knowledge erased women and the price of truth inside a Church that fears it.</p>