When Melisande Stokes, an expert in linguistics and languages, accidently meets
military intelligence operator Tristan Lyons in a hallway at Harvard University,
it is the beginning of a chain of events that will alter their lives and human
history itself. The young man from a shadowy government entity approaches Mel, a
low-level faculty member, with an incredible offer. The only condition: she must
sign a nondisclosure agreement in return for the rather large sum of
money.Tristan needs Mel to translate some very old documents, which, if
authentic, are earth-shattering. They prove that magic actually existed and was
practiced for centuries. But the arrival of the scientific revolution