
When impoverished Ivy Radcliffe inherits a crumbling Yorkshire abbey, she believes she’s won a new life—until its locked library begins stealing her memories, turning books into living curses, and drawing a secret society toward a manuscript that promises immortality at a murderous price.

A stubborn American microfilm librarian fights her way into wartime intelligence, then risks everything in Lisbon’s shadow war—smuggling knowledge, deceiving the Nazis, and gambling her life to save the man she loves from a dictator’s prison.

When impoverished Ivy Radcliffe inherits a crumbling Yorkshire abbey, she believes she’s won a new life—until its locked library begins stealing her memories, turning books into living curses, and drawing a secret society toward a manuscript that promises immortality at a murderous price.

A stubborn American microfilm librarian fights her way into wartime intelligence, then risks everything in Lisbon’s shadow war—smuggling knowledge, deceiving the Nazis, and gambling her life to save the man she loves from a dictator’s prison.