The Inheritance

di William Pickrel (Autore)

William Pickrel, 2026

He spent thirty years settling other people's estates. Now, with months to live, he inherits the one account he was never meant to open. Dominic built his career drafting the final wishes of the wealthy — turning legacies into tidy columns, making fortunes pass in silence. Then a Stage 4 diagnosis trades his future for a number, and a sealed crate in his father's attic gives him something worse: a question. On the lid, in his father's hand — When the time comes to settle the account. Inside is an iron ring and a stack of journals older than any name his family remembers: the record of the Remnant, a hidden line of stewards who have guarded that ring for two thousand years. From a shipwreck on the rocks of Malta, where a condemned apostle once shook a serpent into the fire, the ring has passed in secret through the courts of the medieval Church and the wars of the modern age. It holds no power of its own. It is a mirror — and every emperor, inquisitor, and soldier who ever reached for it was undone by what it showed them in their own hands. Now the hunters are close again. Dominic is dying, his son is watching, and the last duty of his life is to decide what he will pass on, and to whom. He has weeks to settle the account. Eternity is waiting on the answer.

• Autore: William Pickrel
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: William Pickrel
• Formato: EPUB3 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798233048708