The Burning Library

'This is The Da Vinci Code territory - and Macmillan is every bit as thrilling a writer as Dan Brown' Daily Mail'A race against time through ancient manuscripts where every revelation comes with a price' Claire Douglas, bestselling author of The New Neighbours'Blending academia, history and danger, this high-stakes thriller will have your heart pounding' Woman & Home_______________________________For over a century two rival organisations of women have gone to deadly lengths to secure a precious scrap of fraying embroidery in the hopes of finding the original medieval manuscript from which it was torn.
There's the Order of St Katherine: devoted to the belief that women must pull strings in the shadows in order to exercise covert control. And the Fellowship of the Larks: determined to amass as many overt positions of power for women as possible .