Bruce Holsinger

London, 1385. John Gower, part-time poet and full-time trader in information, is given a task - to track down a missing book. It should be easy for a man of Gower’s talents. But what Gower does not know is that this book has already caused one murder, and that its contents could destroy his life.

An adrenaline-fueled story of lives upended and privilege lost in a swiftly changing world.

Daphne Larsen-Hall has every reason to believe that her life as an artist in a luxury Miami house with her surgeon husband, Brantley, and their family, will carry on forever.

But Luna - the world's first Category 6 hurricane - changes everything. With Brantley missing in the aftermath of the massive storm, Daphne and their children find themselves in a vast shelter for the displaced a thousand miles from home, their finances abruptly cut off.

As days turn into weeks, the family confronts losses and circumstances they never imagined, and a world that has changed beneath their feet. When tensions in the shelter reach a breaking point, Daphne's resilience is put to the ultimate test as she realises 'normal' will never return - and faces the shocking truths that threaten to tear her family apart once more.

London, 1386: Sixteen corpses have been discovered in a sewer, their wounds like none ever seen before. Enter John Gower, poet and intellectual whose ‘vocation’ is dealing in men's secrets. Gower pursues his dangerous quarry and comes to the shocking conviction that the men have been killed by a new and deadly weapon of war.