Legacy of Embers (The Brotherhood Chronicles, #0.5)

Before the code was written, the shadow war was fought in the dust. Oxford, 1978. Decades before Adrian Ward weaponized the Ars Goetia into a digital virus, a brilliant and cynical scholar named Ambrose Hale orchestrated a daring heist deep beneath the Bodleian Library. His target: the lost translation journals required to decode humanity's most dangerous, forbidden text. But the Vatican’s shadow Inquisition is already waiting in the dark. Faced with a devastating betrayal and lethal opposition, Ambrose must secure the ancient geometries before the Church can bury the truth forever. This is the classified incident report. This is where the modern Fraternitas was born.