Hierophant

When defense attorney Maeve Calder agrees to defend the beloved parish priest who baptized her, she thinks she's stepping into a battle of law and loyalty — not a war that will unearth a map of ritual, tokens, and a ledger that names the chosen. A volatile accuser, a buried manual of rites, and whispers of an Order that turns sacrament into binding leave Maeve racing from sacristies to ruined chapels and from the seminary's basement to the river's dark edge. As witnesses break their silence and her husband's fogged childhood memory sharpens into accusation, every page she opens tightens the noose around a network more patient and ruthless than anyone imagined. The Vatican watches. The parish claws closed. And the deeper Maeve digs, the more deadly the current pulling her — and everyone she loves — toward a reckoning no one could have foreseen. The Hierophant is a fierce, breathless thriller about faith weaponized, secrets that refuse to drown, and the price of remembering.