Despite Victorian society's strict rules for women, Rebecca and Flora Hawes' desire for adventure has led them to the Sinai Desert. Accompanied by their young butler and their maid, the sisters search for a biblical manuscript. On their...

In the early days of the new millennium, pages of a worn and weathered original sonata manuscript-the gift of a Czech immigrant living out her final days in Queens-come into the hands of Meta Taverner, a young musicologist whose concert...

Move back through time into the alluring worlds of the Alchemists' Council. The anticipated second book in Cynthea Masson's series takes readers to Flaw Dimension, centuries before the events of book one. Rebel scribe Genevre, exploring...

Cass Neary needs cash to get home, and she's already sold her camera. Now her best chance is to get in on a deal for an ancient illuminated manuscript. But an intruder suddenly steals it out from under the dealer's nose. To...

Julianna and her niece are marking time in a villa in Venice. A literary editor obsessed with the work of a long-dead poet, Jeffrey Aspern, comes into their lives to try to ferret out his papers.

When crime novelist Hector Lassiter hears his old friend Hemingway's missing manuscripts have turned up, he visits Hemingway's widow Mary to make sure the manuscripts don't reveal too many of Lassiter's personal details or hint too...

Nous sommes en 1453 et Constantinople est assiégée par les Ottomans. Dans le tumulte et la confusion, Nikolaos, un jeune copiste, réussit à s’échapper de la ville afin d’accomplir une mission secrète : transporter un manuscrit qui...

Professor Tomas Noronha, hired to finish another scholar's research, finds a document with an encrypted message that leads him on a search for the true identity of Columbus.

As November's autumnal hues fall over the Shakespearean hamlet of Ashland, Oregon, Jules and her team at Torte are putting the finishing touches on an authentic Elizabethan feast for the opening gala of a new museum exhibit at...