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    The joyous papacy of Innocent XIV has no place for Aldo Bellini. He knows the worst of himself—knows he should, rightly, be cast aside. And yet, he is still so terribly hungry.

    Exiled with his worst enemy, desperate for what he can’t even name, he is caught between Venice and Rome, the sinner he is and the saint he wants to be.

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    28 Sep 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 17

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    Aldo Bellini is an art restorer dreaming of the day he gets to work on a piece by his favourite Renaissance artist, Jacopo Lomeli. Goffredo Tedesco, PhD, is an art historian tracing the story of the world's most elusive Renaissance artist... Jacopo Lomeli.

    When an extremely rare Lomeli painting falls under the threat of being trapped forever in a selfish man's private collection, Aldo and Goffredo race against time to find answers about this mysterious man from the past... provided the police don't catch them first.

    In Aldo's defence, it wasn't exactly his fault. Blame it all on Goffredo, and Aldo's inability to say no to him, no matter how hard he tries.

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    31 Aug 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 59

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    In a world where soulmates are marked by divine design, Aldo Bellini knew from childhood that he was not alone. He felt every violent blow and every pang of hunger that never reciprocated, and that overwhelming anger that only grows.

    Goffredo Tedesco, the youngest of twelve siblings in a family mired in poverty, has had a phrase etched into his skin in elegant foreign script since he was four years old: "You should be ashamed." He never understood the weight of those words... until the day his soulmate finally spoke them.

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    23 Aug 2025

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    Between the silence of the garden and the weight of the past, something begins to grow that resembles hope. Aldo stays, when Goffredo would rather run away. And in glances and gestures, slowly, love begins to take root.

    "Let all that you do be done in love." (1 Corinthians 16:14)

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    23 Aug 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 23

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    The Conclave is over and the Vatican wants to establish an image of unity around Innocent XIV's Papacy.

    But old rivalries are not easily buried. As the conflict between Cardinals Bellini and Tedesco threatens to escalate, the Holy Father dares to take a drastic measure: To send them on a monastery break together.

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    08 Aug 2025