The Lost Book of Elizabeth Barton

A Novel
A dual-timeline debut set in an English country manor, when an ambitious professor discovers the long-lost manuscript of a Reformation-era prophetess
Historian Alison Sage has made a groundbreaking archival discovery – she found a manuscript containing the prophecies of a 16th century nun, Elizabeth Barton. Bartons prophecy condemning Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn led to her execution and the destruction of all copies of her prophecies – or so the world believed.With Alisons discovery, she is catapulted to academic superstardom and scores an invitation to the exclusive Codex Consortium, a week of research among a select handful of fellow historians at a crumbling manor in England, located next to the ruins of the priory where Elizabeth herself once lived.What begins as a promising conference turns into a nightmare as the eerie house becomes the site of a murder. Suddenly, everyone is a suspect, and it seems that answers lie at the root of a local legend about centuries-old hidden treasure. Alisons research makes her best-suited to solve the mystery – but when old feelings resurface for a former colleague, and the stakes of the search skyrocket, everyone’s motives become murky.Alisons cutthroat world of academia is almost as dangerous as Elizabeth Bartons sixteenth-century England, where heretics are beheaded, visions can kill, and knowing who to trust is a deadly art. The Lost Book of Elizabeth Barton is a thrilling novel, crackling with the voices of the past and propelled by a mystery that will leave readers in suspense until the very last page.