The Inventory of Souls

<p><strong>HISTORY IS WRITTEN BY THE VICTORS.</strong> <strong>BUT THE RECEIPTS WERE KEPT BY A PROOFREADER.</strong></p><p><strong>Seville 1492.</strong> Lorenzo is a man of ink and silence a proofreader in the Inquisition's scriptorium. His job is to correct the Latin of the Church's holy decrees. But when he finds a jagged margin note in a condemned book-<em>Sanguine negotiantur</em> (They trade in blood)-he uncovers a typo in the moral fabric of the world.</p><p>The Spanish Inquisition isn't just saving souls; it is liquidating assets. The fires of the <em>Auto-da-fé</em> are merely the furnace for a massive money-laundering operation designed to fund the most expensive gamble in history: the voyage of Christopher Columbus.</p><p>Armed with a stolen ledger that proves the Holy See is financing the enslavement of a New World before it's even discovered Lorenzo flees to Rome. There he must infiltrate the deadly Conclave of 1492 and face the rising monster Rodrigo Borgia.</p><p>From the sewers of the Vatican to the deck of the <em>Santa Maria</em> Lorenzo becomes the accidental auditor of the Apocalypse. He is the only man standing between a Golden Age of discovery and an Iron Age of greed.</p><p><strong>He can't stop the ships. But he can try to edit the contract.</strong></p>