Career day at his 9 year old’s school is almost a little more than August Adams can bear, given the bombshell his former wife dropped on him the night before. Rather than bore the kids with a definition of a archeobibliologist, August shows them a copy of The Gospels of Henry the Lion, a beautifully illuminated manuscript that disappeared years before in mysterious circumstances.
When accosted by a knife wielding assailant as August and Charlie leave the school, August reconsiders the book’s authenticity and the reasons his estranged father may have sent it to him.
Deadly assassins, an ancient secret …