True Winter

Five hundred years after a powerful artifact called the Chains of Peter was stolen, it resurfaces in Mobile, Alabama, prompting the secret organization the House of David to send its top operative, Judge Eden Dowler, to retrieve it. As Eden believes certain members of the wealthy Bachman family are hiding the artifact, he faces complex decisions involving his estranged half-brother Orion and a rival organization determined to thwart their plans. The story explores themes of loyalty, trust, and moral ambiguity within a tense race for a dangerous relic.