What the Mountain Remembers

A father can bury a truth. A mountain only agrees to keep it. Dr. Sophia Karras has not spoken Thomas Ashcombe's name aloud in eleven years, and she has built a life carefully engineered to make sure she never has to - until a message arrives from a stranger with a Peruvian country code, asking about a name from her past she never expected to hear again: Father Ambrose Kilworth. The stranger is Daniel Vidal-Ashcombe, Thomas's estranged son, and the question in his message reopens a door Sophia spent a decade nailing shut. As she is drawn back into the investigation Thomas once abandoned her over without explanation, Sophia uncovers what a dying Jesuit priest confessed in 1609, in a stone house in Peru's Sacred Valley, to a woman who had buried two husbands and outlived three viceroys: the truth of a bronze case, carried out of a burning library long before either of their countries existed, and a decision about who deserved to carry it next. What Ambrose Kilworth gave away that night was never fully his to give - and four centuries later, it is about to become Sophia's problem in exactly the way Thomas always refused to let it become hers. WHAT THE MOUNTAIN REMEMBERS is Book Two of The Alexandrian Line - a trilogy where a father's silence, a priest's confession, and a secret carried across two continents finally start to converge.