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Mysterious murders terrify Cambridge… An ancient plague threatens London once more… A coded manuscript holds the key, if it can be deciphered in time…<br/>Historian Trina Piper is summoned to the British Library to authenticate a coded manuscript believed to be authored by Isaac Newton himself, while London cowers under the pall of a series of ghastly murders.<br/>When a malicious Russian scholar appears and demands the manuscript, Trina realizes that Newton’s papers and the murders are connected, and both hint at something far more ominous: a secretive Order dedicated to reviving alchemy for sinister purposes.<br/>Caught between occult mysteries and a shadowy cabal, Trina must find a way to save not only herself, but all of London. With the help of a handsome and resourceful Interpol agent, she rushes from Westminster’s fog-filled alleyways to the colleges of Cambridge University in a race to prevent a forgotten seventeenth-century plague from being unleashed… again.<br/>As Big Ben ticks down, she discovers that Newton carried a secret so dark he buried it beneath layers of stone and forbidden sorcery. But now the secret is out and people are dying.<br/>Can Trina solve the Newton cipher before it’s too late?