The troubling message from Serena Charters's late grandmother appears in
a package containing four pages of a centuries-old illuminated
manuscript -- a strange inheritance that hides many secrets...and has
already cost many lives. Seeking answers, Serena turns to Erik North of
Rarities Unlimited, a reclusive manuscript appraiser with a passion for
the past. Without warning, they are thrust together into the center of a
lethal firestorm that rages between two worlds -- one long dead, yet
living on in an ancient text, the other chillingly alive and fraught
with peril. In the blink of an eye, Serena and Erik have become targets
of an unseen and determined stalker as they get closer to shocking
revelations about Serena's legacy, the cold murder of an eccentric old
woman in the heat of the Mojave Desert...and just how far a remorseless
killer is willing to go. And now their only slim hope of survival is to
keep moving.