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Sam Knox must use her archaeological skills and her knowledge of ciphers to crack the code of a mysterious diary and outsmart a nefarious brotherhood seeking to activate the curse of the Specter Queen.
1920s. Samantha Knox put away her childish fantasies of archaeological adventure the day her father didn't return home from the Great War. When a packages arrives at the antique bookshop where she works, with a damaged diary inside, Sam's peaceful life is obliterated. Ruthless men are intent on reclaiming the diary. Sam, her best friend, and her childhood crush are soon in the green hills outside Dublin, Ireland. Here they discover an ancient order planning to perform an occult ritual that will raise the Specter Queen, the Celtic goddess of vengeance and death, to bring about a war unlike any the world has ever seen. Now Sam must solve a deviously complex cipher that will lead to a bowl carved from the tree of life.