Faith on Trial

What This Book Covers

1. Prologue
2. Chapter One - Heretic Season
3. Chapter Two - The Cathars Must Burn
4. Chapter Three - The Medieval Inquisition
5. Chapter Four - God’s Legal Team
6. Chapter Five - Confession by Design
7. Chapter Six - The Spanish Turn Up the Heat
8. Chapter Seven - The Auto-da-Fé
9. Chapter Eight - The Index of Forbidden Books
10. Chapter Nine - The Inquisition Goes Global
11. Chapter Ten - Witches, Midwives, and Madwomen
12. Chapter Eleven - Reform and Revolt
13. Chapter Twelve - The Enlightenment Blows It Open
14. Chapter Thirteen - Memory in Ashes
15. Chapter Fourteen - Modern Inquisitions

Excerpt

PROLOGUE YOU WAKE UP in a stone room. You don’t know how long you’ve been here, maybe a few hours, maybe a week. There’s no window. Just a wooden door, a single torch burning low, and a man in a robe, holding a list. Your name is on it. He doesn’t accuse you. Not yet. That’s not how this works. He doesn’t need proof. He doesn’t need evidence. He just needs a suspicion, or a rumor, or the wrong word whispered in the wrong ear on the wrong day. And now here you are. This isn’t a novel. Or a horror movie. Or some overblown metaphor about authoritarianism. It’s the Inquisition. It was real. It happened. It wasn’t hidden. It wasn’t rogue. It wasn’t a conspiracy. It was a sanctioned, celebrated,...