Sanctum

di , BernsPen (Autore)

BernsPen, 2025

Paolo Santiago was a man built for belief. For four years, his work inside the Curia Ecclesiae—the administrative heart of the archdiocese—felt like proximity to something sacred. Then he finds the numbers that don't add up. A children's charity fund, quietly diverted. A cover-up, filed away and forgotten. A mentor who has perfected the art of sounding reasonable while answering nothing at all. What begins as a crisis of conscience becomes something harder: the slow, costly work of building a life—and an ethics—from scratch, without the certainty he's always leaned on. A secondhand bookstore. A blunt, overextended nonprofit director named Eliza who has no patience for performed virtue. A soup kitchen where a stranger's two words mean more than a cathedral full of liturgy. And, eventually, an old threat comes due—a real test of whether the goodness Paolo has been practicing is something he actually believes, or only something he needed to believe while he was angry. Sanctum is a quiet, unflinching novel about institutional betrayal, the particular loneliness of leaving what you love, and the harder question underneath it: can a person simply choose to be good—without a mandate, a reward, or anyone keeping score?

• Autore: , BernsPen
• Anno edizione: 2025
• Editore: BernsPen
• Formato: EPUB2 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798232422042