In a secret world of forbidden knowledge power comes at a terrible price... Quentin Coldwaters life is changed forever by an apparently chance encounter: when he turns up for his entrance interview to Princeton he finds his interviewer dead
- but a strange envelope bearing Quentins name leads him down a very different path to any hed ever imagined. The envelope & the mysterious manuscript it contains leads to a secret world of obsession & privilege a world of freedom & power & for a while its a world that seems to answer all Quentins desires. But the idyll cannot last
- & when its finally shattered Quentin is drawn into something darker & far more dangerous than anything he could ever have expected...