The Rose Labyrinth

Before his death in 1609, John Dee — astrologer and adviser to Elizabeth I — hid his most dangerous writings, convinced the world wasn't ready for them. For generations, his female descendants have quietly guarded the secret of where.

In the present day, Will Stafford inherits a strange legacy from his mother: a key and a cryptic manuscript. Investigating it costs him his life in a crash that may not have been an accident — but his heart goes to Lucy King, a television producer whose own heart was failing.

Drawn into Will's unfinished puzzle, Lucy follows its clues from London to France to New York, uncovering the alchemical and historical trail Dee left behind, while a powerful, politically connected fundamentalist named Fitzalan Walters will do anything to reach the secret first.

Part historical mystery, part conspiracy thriller, the novel moves between Elizabethan England and the present, tracing esoteric history alongside a modern chase.