Bryony St. Blaze receives a mysterious package containing her father's research. What she finds in that package convinces Bryony that her father's death was no accident -- that he was murdered by members of a secret order, and she must stop at nothing to keep the killers from finding the missing book that they value more than life itself. Equally determined to bring her father's murderers to justice and to fulfill his dearest dream of locating the lost volume, Bryony travels to Great Britain to enlist the aid of historian Hamish Neville, forging the first link in a chain of destiny that will bind Bryony and Hamish together forever.