{ "item_title" : "The Eleventh Signature", "item_author" : [" Joseph A. Ortega "], "item_description" : "The Eleventh Signature: Book SummaryIn a nameless medieval wood, eleven starving strangers gather around a dying fire. A formless Shadow offers them a bargain: wealth beyond imagining, passed through their bloodlines forever, in exchange for their lives and the lives of every descendant who follows. Ten accept and seal the pact in blood. One, a young man named Cael, refuses at the last moment and runs, not understanding what his refusal will cost him.Over the next seven centuries, the ten bloodlines who said yes root themselves into the world's institutions, dissolving by stages into lending houses, trading empires, religious authorities, industrial fortunes, and finally anonymous shell corporations and foundations that no outsider can trace back to a name. Each generation inherits the arrangement without ever being asked to agree to it. Meanwhile, Cael's soul is reborn again and again, always dying young, always running from a fear he can't name, always found and silenced before the covenant's ledger can close.In the present day, that soul is a man named Alex. Drawn by dreams he can't explain, he breaks into a condemned Paris chapel and unearths an iron chest that holds the covenant's original ledger. He's taken to a black marble room and shown everything by the Curator, the ledger's keeper, who wants only one thing: Alex's signature, the eleventh and last the account has ever needed. For the first time in seven hundred years, Alex refuses with full understanding of the cost rather than blind fear, and that refusal does something the original flight never did; it changes the account itself.The three sequels follow what that change sets in motion. In Part II, the ten houses' advantages begin failing in small, unexplained ways, and Alex and a reluctant new keeper of the ledger must determine whether a refusal made with open eyes can actually hold. In Part III, the ten bloodlines are revealed as ten small nations, each built around a single inherited function such as harbor, law, or crown, and the group is forced to reckon with an eleventh claim it never accounted for. Part IV follows the one bloodline the ledger never recorded, set against a modern fight over mandatory digital identification and what it costs a person to be entered into any system permanently.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers3.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/890/797/9798907972834_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "29.99", "online_price" : "29.99", "our_price" : "29.99", "club_price" : "29.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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