The Orphanus has been the symbol of royal honor, and has adorned the crown of the Holy Germanic Empire. Then it disappeared, playing with men, their desires and the vanity of the world. Its sinuous destiny will join that of the gemologist Sixtine Dangeli, in the heart of the Mont Blanc nowadays. For Sixtine, everything began when a man knocked on her door in the middle of the night. A man she identifies as her grandfather Bartolomeo, as he appeared on the only photo she possessed... Is he a ghost, or premonitory vision? The police will soon reveal to her that her grandfather has been murdered, and this tragedy will bring Sixtine back to a very old story: the mysterious iron cage in the Vatican and the Nazi war treasures. Treasures and a stone that still shines... Sixtine's investigation will lead her to the Italian historian Federico Valente, a man whose charm she will find hard to resist.
- In the heart of the Alpine glaciers, between Italy, Germany, Bohemia and France, it is an immense and incredible journey that the Orphanus takes us on. From the Middle Ages to the 21st century, the time of stone transcends that of man.
Viviane Moore bs a cult author in our catalogue. She has brought a wave of adventure and epic into the genre of historical detective with more than 200,000 copies sold of her series Tancrède Le Normand.