Clara Bardés, granddaughter of a famous but now deceased painter, recently found herself faced with a task that could change not only the course of her career, but also her own life. He had undertaken, with passion and dedication, the restoration of a series of paintings kept in the majestic Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris, some of which dated back to the Middle Ages.

One afternoon, when the tourists had already left and the stone masses of the temple were enclosed in their silence, Clara dared to climb to the upper levels of the building. There, between the Gothic arches and the enigmatic gargoyles, he made out a deformed silhouette. It was Ergaster, the sadistic torturer who everyone thought was dead; the same one who was on the verge of making her his victim, along with Professor Alba Longa, if Commissioner Tynianov had not intervened at the last moment.

The cathedral door had closed behind her. The criminal remained inside, apparently not having noticed his presence. Still shaking with fear, Clara returned to her apartment and immediately called the professor. Longa contacted Tynianov and thus the three began to unravel the skein of a matter that surpassed all logic.

Ergaster, a specialist in the so-called “death of a thousand cuts”, was not simply a surviving murderer. His presence at Notre-Dame was a sign of a broader conspiracy. The threads led to a secret brotherhood, to somber meetings around circular tables, under heavy candelabras and Venetian masks of gold and diamonds.

Clara felt that she was stepping on a terrain where the past and the present confronted each other. The frescoes and paintings that he had undertaken to save, witnesses of centuries, seemed to whisper warnings to him. The cathedral was no longer a simple place of worship or history; It had become a theater of imminent catastrophe.

The following days were expected to be decisive. The trio, already united by fear but also by duty, had to reveal the conspiracy before it exploded with incalculable consequences. Not only psalms and hymns resounded on the stones of Notre-Dame, but also the echo of a threat that methodically approached, like distant thunder announcing a storm.

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