With Two Eyes Into Gehenna

A rosary in one hand. A dagger in the other. Sister Magdalena never heard of the Catherinite nuns until the day she faced her own death sentence. Rome, 1562. Its the era of the Index of Banned Books and the Roman Inquisition. Kings still burn heretics. The worst threats come from within the Church itself. Only seventeen, Magdalena killed a priest who tried to rape her within the walls of her convent. His powerful family will see her executed, and then theyll destroy her mother and young sister. Instead, the pope makes an offer. To save her life and protect her family, Magdalena can disappear into a secret religious order, one with a demanding physical regimen to go along with the prayers. Shell pray the psalms and learn to climb walls. Shell sharpen her mind and fine-tune her body. Perfected, shell infiltrate the Council of Trent. Magdalenas order slips through cathedrals and palaces at the council, the Popes silent operatives. They act as bodyguards for the cardinals. They gather intelligence. If they find heresy, the penalty is death. But when one of the popes own men is named a heretic, Magdalena must decide how far shell go to protect her church.