{"product_id":"9781592118243","title":"Lost Diary of Joan of Arc: The Journey of the Church's True Heroine","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \"Da Vinci Code\" for the faith market, this dual-timeline thriller blends meticulous historical research with a modern archaeological mystery to reveal the human side of history’s most enigmatic warrior saint.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHer voices told her to save France. Her diary tells the rest.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1996, Vatican archaeologist Guiseppe Campise is pulled off a dig on Mount Ararat and handed a new assignment: find the rumored third diary of Joan of Arc, a record of her final days that the Church has been seeking for centuries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis search leads him to an unfinished cathedral in Soissons, where tools vanish in the night and a motion-activated camera captures a figure in medieval chain mail moving through the shadows at 3 a.m. What Campise finds at the top of a sealed spiral staircase is not a ghost but something far stranger: a giant of a man who calls himself \"Dwarf,\" living in self-imposed exile as the last guardian of Joan's lost writings.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe diary he protects is Joan's own account, recorded by the priests and notaries who walked beside her. It begins with a thirteen-year-old girl hearing a voice like a trumpet in her family's vegetable garden. It follows her through public humiliation, secret midnight rides across frozen enemy territory, and the blood-soaked walls of Orleans, where she pulled an arrow from her own shoulder and refused to let the trumpeter sound retreat. It ends where history says it must.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is not the Joan of stained glass and statues. This is the girl who practiced riding in secret so no one would see her fall, who wept under tree branches on frozen ground, and who screamed the name of Jesus as the flames climbed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePerfect for fans of \u003ci\u003eThe Da Vinci Code\u003c\/i\u003e who want more heart, and readers of Francine Rivers who want more grit.","brand":"Simon and Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":60378259292446,"sku":"9781592118243","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/8436\/0222\/files\/9781592118243.jpg?v=1792442998","url":"https:\/\/shop.simonandschuster.com\/products\/9781592118243","provider":"Simon and Schuster","version":"1.0","type":"link"}