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Henry Holt & Company
April 2011
On Sale: March 29, 2011
352 pages
ISBN: 080509069X
EAN: 9780805090697
Hardcover
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An ancient mystery, a lost letter, and a timeless love
unleash a long-buried web of intrigue that spans four centuries In the late sixteenth century, five brilliant scholars
gather under the cloak of darkness to discuss God, politics,
astronomy, and the black arts. Known as the School of Night,
they meet in secret to avoid the wrath of Queen Elizabeth.
But one of the men, Thomas Harriot, has secrets of his own,
secrets he shares with one person only: the servant woman he
loves. In modern-day Washington, D.C., disgraced Elizabethan
scholar Henry Cavendish has been hired by the ruthless
antiquities collector Bernard Styles to find a missing
letter. The letter dates from the 1600s and was stolen by
Henry's close friend, Alonzo Wax. Now Wax is dead and Styles
wants the letter back. But the letter is an object of interest to others, too. It
may be the clue to a hidden treasure; it may contain the
long-sought formula for alchemy; it most certainly will
prove the existence of the group of men whom Shakespeare
dubbed the School of Night but about whom little is known.
Joining Henry in his search for the letter is Clarissa Dale,
a mysterious woman who suffers from visions that only Henry
can understand. In short order, Henry finds himself
stumbling through a secretive world of ancient perils,
caught up in a deadly plot, and ensnared in the tragic
legacy of a forgotten genius.
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