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St. Martin's Press
March 2012
On Sale: February 28, 2012
368 pages
ISBN: 1250002303
EAN: 9781250002303
Kindle: B00457X7V8
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Mystery Cozy
An ancient mystery, a lost letter, and a timeless love
unleash a long-buried web of intrigue that spans four
centuriesIn 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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