First Virtue

I climbed the steps of the sacred pyramid knowing the sky itself was watching me die.

Below, alien deities roared for blood. Above, Huitzilopochtli awaited - king of the demons, crowned in lightning and ash - certain that a boy from Rome could not overturn fate. Perhaps he was right. Cast thirty-seven million light-years from home, into a universe where soccer was law and defeat meant extinction, maybe my only option was to give up.

But I refused.

Don Rodrigo, the ambassador, called it diplomacy. Jorge Campos, my friend, called it suicide. For me, it was survival.

Worshipped as gods, the Chichimecs erased civilizations across the stars, hunting an ancient prophecy - the Key that could open Saint Peter's Basilica. They wanted to erase Scripture. I had to stop them. Surviving the nine realms of the Aztec underworld, reaching a portal guarded by supernatural beings, and somehow returning to Earth seemed impossible.
I should have failed long ago. But behind me rose legends reborn from myth - Maradona, Pelé, Ronaldo - humanity's last hope for freedom.

Huitzilopochtli believed destiny to be in his hands. But destiny never met Katyusha.

She burned in my memory like sunrise over snow. Defiant, beautiful, fearless, she taught me freedom had a price - a price the universe was about to pay.

If I failed, creation would end at dawn.
If I succeeded, mankind would rewrite its own prophecy.


The match for eternity has already begun.


First Virtue is an epic science-fiction fantasy where faith, love, and rebellion collide across the stars. Blending grand space opera with romance, adventure, and the drama of sport, it follows Alexander's impossible quest to save creation itself. Drawing on Aztec mythology, sacred prophecy, and theological mystery, it delivers cinematic spectacle alongside deeply human stakes. First Virtue is the opening novel of the Virtue Saga trilogy.