Resumen
In a secret world of forbidden knowledge, power comes at a terrible price...
Quentin Coldwaters life is changed forever by an apparently chance encounter: when he turns up for his entrance interview to Princeton he finds his interviewer dead - but a strange envelope bearing Quentins name leads him down a very different path to any hed ever imagined.
The envelope, and the mysterious manuscript it contains, leads to a secret world of obsession and privilege, a world of freedom and power and, for a while, its a world that seems to answer all Quentins desires. But the idyll cannot last - and when its finally shattered, Quentin is drawn into something darker and far more dangerous than anything he could ever have expected...<