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Venice, 1556. In a city drowning in plague and prayer, a secret order of priests moves by candlelight, defying the law to grant final absolution to the dying. Among them, Father Sebastian -- soldier, sinner, believer -- breaks his vow and vanishes, leaving behind a legend whispered through centuries: that redemption and ruin are sometimes the same prayer.

Now, in the modern world, that legend breathes again. A masked figure known as The Plague Doctor emerges from the shadows, orchestrating a string of ritual attacks that echo the prophecies of Nostradamus. Cathedrals burn. Faith fractures. A new contagion of fear spreads -- not of disease, but of devotion twisted into war.

Into this storm steps James Cross, a disillusioned Intelligence operative haunted by the ghosts of his own agency. With Isabella De Santos, a cryptographer marked by the cult she escaped, Cross must follow a trail of coded scripture and crimson masks through the labyrinth of modern Venice.

As the city erupts in the chaos of Carnevale,disguise becomes revelation. The hunt for The Plague Doctor leads to a secret older than empires -- a conspiracy born in the age of plague,reborn in the age of surveillance.

And when Cross finally unmasks his enemy beneath the flicker of glass chandeliers, he faces the hardest truth of all: that faith, once weaponized, never dies -- it only changes its face.