A Cambridge historian, Elizabeth Vogelsang, is found drowned, clutching a glass prism in her hand. The book she was writing about Isaac Newton's involvement with alchemy -- the culmination of her lifelong obsession with the seventeenth century -- remains unfinished. When her son, Cameron, asks hi...
Dragging it out of the waves was one thing; wrestling it, still alive, onto the deck of the ship was quite another. The Emperor, interrupted in dictating his memoirs below deck, hearing the shouting above, climbed up onto the poop deck, where the Bertrand children and Emmanuel, the fifteen-year-o...