NONE WITNESS: A Vatican Conspiracy Thriller (Killian Kane Series Book 1)

Killian Kane was sixteen when discovered in a Chicago warehouse, inheriting his father's work as an Outfit cleaner after the man's execution. A decade later, Kane serves as a Custodian for the Resolution Office, a clandestine Vatican division. His role involves reconstructing crime scenes, building explanations that go unquestioned, and turning violence into accident and sin into silence. He has never failed. When a priest appears posed and deliberate in New York, followed by others in Chicago, Milwaukee, and Indianapolis, Kane recognizes the pattern. A man calling himself Lucien is hunting clergy the Church quietly relocated, shielded through settlements and sealed records—men whose sins were forgiven on paper and forgotten elsewhere. Lucien knows about the Resolution Office, which should be impossible. He doesn't run; he reveals. Forced into sanctioned violence he was never designed for, Kane confronts a fracture he cannot clean: the system he serves may be protecting evil rather than correcting it. Lucien isn't hunting monsters. He's proving they were allowed to exist. Kane is what comes after—not saved, but built. Redemption is not part of the protocol.