There is magic in this place. You just have to sit and breathe and wait and it will find you. Fifteenth-century Constantinople. Present day Idaho. The future, and humanity's last hope.

Across time and space, five young dreamers are bound by a single ancient text. Together, they tell a story of a world in peril; of the power of words, of resilience, and of hope against all odds. 

'Wonderment and despair, love and destruction and hope, all find their place in its sumptuously plotted pages.' Observer

'Ingenious, hopeful and totally absorbing.' Financial Times

'This engagingly written, big-hearted book is a must-read.' Daily Mirror

'A dazzling epic of love, war and the joy of books.' Guardian