Conclave

When the Pope dies suddenly, Cardinal Jacopo Lomeli is tasked with overseeing the conclave to elect his successor — a process governed by centuries of tradition and secrecy.

As the cardinals are sequestered and the ballots begin, Lomeli becomes entangled in a conspiracy that threatens to derail the election and expose a scandal at the heart of the Vatican's power structure.

The race between four prominent candidates — the pragmatic Bellini, the ambitious Adeyemi, the staunch Tedesco, and the enigmatic Tremblay — escalates as old secrets resurface and the true stakes of the papacy are revealed.