Concealed for two thousand years, the Apostles' conspiracy is now exposed. Smuggled parchment from a cave below the Dead Sea arrives at the Vatican in the dead of night. Within the shipment, Cardinal Brandt discovers a fragment of a letter... ...the Epistula Sancta. Some believe that it quite possibly was written by Jesus himself on the night of his crucifixion. Racing against a militant Muslim cult of assassins and a secret cartel determined to steal the fragment, Cardinal Brandt and his brother fight to reassemble the letter as the Cardinal wrestles with his conscience. Priests are mutilated, security guards decapitated, a Cardinal assassinated, and a family's ugly secret is exposed, ultimately destroying the family... ...yet the meaning of the fragment remains hidden. Soon, Cardinal Brandt realizes the Epistula he is pursuing contains a hidden prophesy. The Cardinal must then decide whether to continue searching for the remaining fragments and possibly reveal the date of the Apocalypse to a world already in turmoil, or allow the Epistula and its contents to remain hidden. From Jerusalem to the ancient city of Petra, from a lost monastery near Alexandria to Saint Peter's tomb, the search for the missing pieces becomes a race against time.