Audio Book Description:
Fatima, Portugal, 1917: The Virgin Mary appears to three peasant children, sharing with them three secrets, two of which are soon revealed to theworld. The third secret is sealed away in the Vatican anddisclosed until year 2000. Whenrevealed, its puzzling tone and anticlimatic nature leavemany faithful wondering if the Church has truly unveiled all of the Virgin Mary`s words-or if a message far more important has been left inthe shadows. Vatican City, present day: Papal secretary Father Colin Michener is concerned for the Pope. Night after restless night, Clement XV enters theVatican`s Riserva, the special archive open only to popes, where the Church`s most clandestine and controversial documents are stored. Though unsureof the details, Michener knows that the Pope`s distress stems from the revelations in Fatima. Equally concerned, but not out of any sense ofcompassion, is Alberto Cardinal Valendrea, the Vatican`s Secretary of State. Valendrea desperately covets the papacy, having narrowly lost outto Clement at the last conclave. Now the Pope`s interest in Fatima threatens to uncover a shocking ancient truth that Valendrea ahs kept to himself formany years. When Pope Clement sends Michener to the Romanian highlands in search of a venerable priest, a perilous set of events unfolds.Michener finds himself embroiled in murder, suspicion, suicide, deceit, and his forbidden passion for a beloved woman. In a desperate search foranswers, he travels to a Bosnian holy site and then to Pope Clement`s birthplace in Germany, where he learns that the third secret of Fatima maydictate the very fate fo the Church-a fate Michener finds lying in his own hands.
