A Father's Lock. A Dying Fragment. A Truth They'll Stop at Nothing to Bury.
Forty-seven hours. That's how long Ava Calloway has before the relic sealed beneath Jerusalem crumbles to dust and takes a fifteen-hundred-year-old secret with it.
She's the only one who can open it. The seal answers to her bloodline, and to two keys her father hid apart before he vanished; kept separate so no single hand could ever turn them alone.
Now Ava has his journal, the code only the two of them can read, and a single partner as hunted as she is.
The trail runs fast and dark, from the tunnels beneath Jerusalem to the porticoes of Bologna to the flooded cisterns under Istanbul. Some want the fragments sealed away forever. Others want them seized and controlled. Ava stays a step ahead of them all, but the closer she comes to the truth, the more it costs to keep moving.
One wrong move, and the secret her father gave his freedom to protect is gone for good.
The history is real. The conspiracy is human. The stakes have never been more personal.
For fans of Kate Mosse, Brad Meltzer, and Deborah Harkness, the second installment of The Apocrypha Trilogy delivers a heart-pounding journey of mystery, history, and suspense.
