Prague: once the city of alchemists, astronomers, hell fires, heretics, and Kremlin crackdowns, now the destination of every beer-loving kid in a backpack… and one deadly ex-CIA agent with a secret to keep. Music student Sarah Weston has no idea how dangerous and weird her life is about to get when she accepts an unexpected invitation to spend the summer at Prague Castle doing research for a historic noble family’s private museum. Prague is a threshold, she’s warned, between the life of good and… the other. Sarah has no patience for either superstition or royalty, and no interest in Cold War fallout. But soon after she arrives in the ancient city, Sarah learns her predecessor may have been murdered, and finds herself at the center of escalating and dangerous mysteries spanning several centuries. Who is killing off the academics at the museum? What secrets of time travel was a sixteenth century alchemist hiding? Who was Beethoven’s Immortal Beloved? Can the handsome young heir to the fortune be trusted? What Communist-era intrigue is a prominent and powerful American willing to kill to cover up? Do hell portals really exist? In this rollicking and sexy nonstop caper, a kickass new heroine who’s brilliant and uninhibited in every way makes her debut, plunging headlong into the long and mysterious history of the City of Dark Magic…
