The Scrolls of Provence: The Lost History of Christianity and the Secret Order Sworn to Erase It. The Silentii Trilogy, #1

History is written by the powerful. The truth hides in what they erased. When Dr. Susan Hale, curator of Christian antiquities at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, unearths an ancient scroll in the hills of southern France, she steps into a mystery so dangerous it has been hunted for centuries. The Silentii-an order, founded in the shadows of Constantine's reign, exists to protect Christian orthodoxy at any cost.
To them, the scroll is not a relic but a threat, one that must be silenced forever. Drawn into the chase is Alister Duram, an Oxford-trained scholar whose obsession with early Christian texts makes him both an ally and a target. Together, Susan and Alister must outwit a brotherhood that moves through cathedrals, archives, and hidden chambers beneath the Vatican itself. Every discovery leads them deeper into a story that stretches from Jesus and Mary Magdalene's hidden years to the rise of the early Church, a history far more contested-and more human-than tradition allows. As they race across Provence, Rome, and the ruins of ancient Antioch, pursued by the relentless Silentii agent Corvus, Susan and Alister confront questions of faith, power, and the price of truth.
What they uncover could upend centuries of doctrine, revealing not only the survival of forbidden scrolls but also the lives of those who risked everything to preserve them. Blending historical intrigue with modern suspense, The Scrolls of Provence is the opening volume of the Silentii Covenant Trilogy. This sweeping saga asks what happens when hidden history collides with the structures of belief that shape our world. For readers of Dan Brown, Steve Berry, and Kate Mosse, this novel combines meticulous historical detail with relentless thriller pacing, offering a narrative that moves between past and present with one haunting question at its core: How much of our faith rests on what was erased? MORE TO COME