P59 / VOLUME 1 / The Cap
Black Smoke
The conclave has not yet chosen. One cardinal remembers a different election. Sequestered in the Vatican, Matteo Valli carries an outcome no one around him can verify. Another name, another sequence of events, lending new weight to every present conversation. His memory may be a warning. It may also become a way to influence others without being able to account for his source.
The Cap / APODYOPSISBEYOND THE COVER
Black Smoke
The novel’s colors become a space.Enter the setting
THE OPENING PAGES / AN EVOCATIONSpaces imagined from the opening pages. Each setting leads back to its book.