The Newton Cipher: A Trina Piper Thriller (Trina Piper Thrillers Book 1)

Isaac Newton kept a secret so dark he took it to the grave. Now that secret is out, and people are dying. Historian Trina Piper is called to the British Library to authenticate a manuscript believed to have been written by Isaac Newton. As she examines the document, a body count rises and an ancient threat emerges in London. When a mysterious scholar appears determined to steal the manuscript, Trina discovers he belongs to a shadowy Order seeking to revive forgotten magic for sinister purposes. Trina must confront questions her academic training cannot answer: Can science and magic coexist? Should they? With help from a resourceful Interpol agent, she navigates ancient secrets and deadly conspiracies across Westminster, Cambridge University, and beyond. Newton's cryptic work holds the answer she needs—if she can decipher its three-hundred-year-old message in time. As the clock runs down, Trina must reconcile a startling truth: Sir Isaac Newton was both the first among modern scientists and the last of the medieval alchemists. His long-buried secret could spell the end for them all.