Some legends were never meant to be tamed.

When forensic archaeologist Dr. Elara Voss discovers a 4th-century cloak—dyed not in festive red but ritualistically bleached pink—she uncovers a truth the Vatican has spent 1,700 years erasing: St. Nicholas was never just a kindly gift-giver. He was the founder of a secret network of weavers, sailors, and rebels who didn’t hand out charity—they engineered “luck” so the desperate could rebuild their lives and never know who helped them.

Now hunted by a shadowy order sworn to silence her, Elara must follow a trail of coded carols and bloodstained ledgers from Zurich to the Arctic Circle. There, beneath the northern lights, she’ll face a choice: let the world keep its comforting lie… or reignite a revolution hidden in plain sight.

The Locked Hands is a globe-trotting thriller where the most radical act of faith isn’t prayer—
…it’s giving someone the power to give back.