In the monastery of the Immaculate Conception, something dreadful and unclear was going on. Murders of nuns, disappearances of relics... Police commissioners Elke and Nicol etta couldn’t make sense of what was happening in this backwater town until they found the dug-up grave of jeweler Álvaro Mendoza and discovered his letter to his descendants. The traces led back to the 19th century—brilliant and ominous times of Emperor Silvio the First’s reign...
During the revolt, Silvio ordered Mendoza to hide the imperial treasures. The jeweler hoped his niece Carolina—the mother of the prince, Silvio’s heir—would find them, but her trail was lost in the whirl of those troubled times. Mendoza left in his letter only a riddle that would help find the cache. And to solve it, you need the monastery’s sacred relics. So now, a century and a half later, someone has started hunting them...